Find applications by their category
Bug #707156 reported by
Jan Schürmann
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synapse |
In Progress
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Undecided
|
Jérémy Munsch | ||
Bug Description
when typing i.e. "chat" i expect that synapse finds Pidgin, Empathy, IRC Clients and any chat client indexed but nothing happens.
Synapse only shows applications with "chat" in the application name.
i think it would be more intuitive and a great benefit especially for new users if one could type "internet" or "email" or "chat" or "music" and gets a list of programs with that functionality - often the programs description has the mentioned word in it so synapse "only" has to index that descriptions too...?!
keep up your good work, i love synapse!
Related branches
lp:~jeremy-munsch/synapse-project/improved-search2
- Rico Tzschichholz: Pending requested
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Diff: 179 lines (+104/-2)2 files modifiedsrc/core/desktop-file-service.vala (+56/-0)
src/plugins/desktop-file-plugin.vala (+48/-2)
| summary: |
- doesn't recognizes regular expressions for applications + Find applications by their category |
Revision history for this message
| Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in synapse-project: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| upkpk (upkpk) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in synapse-project: | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| assignee: | nobody → Jeremy Munsch (jeremy-munsch) |
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confirming as it sounds like a good idea to me too.
I wonder if it is possible to be implemented. Maybe using the categories from the .desktop's 'Category' section ?