Using Gnome Settings' search tool works for some but not all items located under top-level menu categories
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
(As seen in the latest daily build of 32bit Ubuntu Budgie)
See attached screenshot. Searching within settings is currently not as useful / intuitive as it could be, as it finds results for some items located within the top-level menu entries / categories, but not all items.
Being able to find all menu sub-items from the search tool without having to pore through individual menus is the ideal outcome, and is my intention in raising this bug report - the individual examples below are merely instances of this broader pattern. Please note that these examples seem to be changing rapidly, as overnight updates have made some search terms return valid results when only a few days ago they didn't.
Examples of search terms that don't work / work fully:
- cursor (no items found; should return "Universal Access")
- high (ditto)
- sound (only returns the "sound" menu; should also return "Universal Access"
- sharing (brings up some valid results, but not "Notifications" which includes the item "desktop sharing".
- desktop (ditto)
Examples of search terms which do work properly:
- contrast
- screen
- size
Thanks,
Ken.
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ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-10 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha i386 (20180307.1)
Package: gnome-control-
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
tags: | added: bionic |
summary: |
- Searching within Gnome Settings only works for top-level menu entries + Using Gnome Settings' search tool works for some but not all items + located under top-level menu categories |
description: | updated |
This issue has been partially improved in the overnight update, but inconsistently.
As some examples of the broader pattern I'm talking about here, searching for:
- "screen" now brings up a plausible list of options, including screenshot, universal access, displays, etc.
- "contrast" brings up Universal Access. All good.
- "cursor" brings up no result, despite also being an option under Universal Access.
- "sharing" brings up "sharing - control what you want to share with others", but does not bring up "desktop sharing".
- "banner" brings up no result, even though "banner designer" is an option under Notifications > Applications.