Integration with libcolumbus for error tolerant matching
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Synapse |
New
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Undecided
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Tom Beckmann |
Bug Description
I've been using Synapse for a while now and I love it for its low footprint on memory, speed and expandability. One feature I'd like to see, though, is more error tolerant or "fuzzy" matching between search terms and application/file entries.
As of Ubuntu 13.04, Unity now comes with libcolumbus, a "fast approximate matching library" which is introduced in this blog post by Ubuntu developer Jussi Pakkanen: http://
As you can see in [this video](https:/
I feel that the integration of this library, if technically feasible of course, could greatly enhance the user experience with Synapse launcher.
Thank you for reading this.
description: | updated |
Changed in synapse-project: | |
assignee: | nobody → Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann) |