Search provider of gnome-terminal does not work in gnome-shell

Bug #1812378 reported by Amr Ibrahim
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Steps:
1. Make sure the search provider of Terminal is turned on in Settings -> Search
2. Press the super key to open Activities
3. Search for top

Expected behaviour:
Result from Terminal appears among the search results

Current behaviour:
Terminal provides no result

Other:
An old bug #1390224 to enable gnome-shell search provider

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-43.46-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 18 12:07:59 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-29 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I believe the Terminal search provider only allows searching the titles of open terminals and command line prompts and maybe a bit more.

It is not a generic tool to search for command-line utilities like top.

Therefore, I am closing this bug.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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