searching for "Ubuntu Help" doesn't return yelp in Ubuntu Software Centre

[Stubbles]

If someone does not know about the Ubuntu Desktop Guide (Ubuntu's official Help),
and they were to type "Ubuntu Help" in the Ubuntu Software Centre,
the results would not list the entry: Help (yelp) ...which is the package for the Ubuntu Desktop Guide.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

A search in the dash for 'ubuntu help' doesn't return any results neither, so I am marking the ubuntu-docs package as affected, maybe by adding the appropriate keywords both software-center and dash will return the Help when searching for 'ubuntu help'.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The .desktop for "Help" is provided by yelp. We just need to change the comment or add keywords.

[Stubbles (robert-gagne)]

Where is the: comment/keywords changed?
From what Jeremy did (reassign the bug from "software-centre" to "yelp") it seems that is is the packager's responsibility.
If this is the case, I think a separate process within the "software-centre" team should also be dealing with these issues...and this could be an ideal Paper-Cut Project task.

The reason I'm asking is that I have filed 2 other similar bugs that do not show the expected package in the Ubuntu Software Centre or the Unity Dash.

see:
1. bug #1050803: no "antivirus" search results such as ClamTK
         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1050803
and
2. bug #1071847: Search: "Excel" or ".xls" does not return: "LibreOffice Calc"
         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1071847

Looking forward to learning more about the intricacies of filling Ubuntu bugs.
Cheers,
Rob :-)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Yeah, software center isn't the right place to report these bugs; report them against the actual package you are looking for.

These can be fixed by editing the comments or keywords fields of the .desktop. For instance, look at /usr/share/applications/yelp.desktop . It could be as simple as changing "Unity help" in that file to "Ubuntu help" but I'm not sure yet if that's exactly what we want to do.

The comments and keywords are also used for searching in Unity's dash or in the GNOME Shell Activities Overview.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

@Jeremy: I'd say that "Unity help" is a bit inappropriate, as the Ubuntu Desktop Guide covers a lot more topics than Unity, so I would say changing that to "Ubuntu help" would be the best solution.

[Stubbles (robert-gagne)]

I was more concerned about the search results in the Ubuntu Software Centre than the Unity Dash.

Does the Ubuntu Software Centre only search a mega collection of *.desktop files?

If not, the two are returning results using different approaches for returning search results.
Then, shouldn't they be submitted as separate bugs?

Rob :-)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Practically speaking, the Software Center & the Dash use the same method for showing search results (the .desktop files).

Technically, the Software Center uses a periodically compiled database of the .desktop's to speed up search but that shouldn't make a lot of difference. It doesn't help to report a software-center bug.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Looks like this is not an issue in 16.04, where Ubuntu Software Center has been replaced with the new "Software" app. Let me know if I'm missing something.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for yelp (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]