Dash filter categories should be identical to the Software Center categories

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: unity

Unity 3.6.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Natty alpha 3

1. Click the Ubuntu button.
2. Click "Find Media Apps".

What you see: LibreOffice Draw is shown as a media application.
What you should see: LibreOffice Draw is not present.

LibreOffice Draw is no more a "media application" than LibreOffice Impress is. (Both of them let you insert movies or sound into their documents, but that's a pretty tenuous association.)

Desired resolution:

The Dash filter categories should be identical to the Software Center categories.

[Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112)]

Actually, all applications present on "Graphics" and "Multimedia" categories of GNOME classic menu are on "Media" category of Unity. I think this is proposital.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

The Dash filter categories should be identical to the Software Center categories, this is important for consistency and should also solve this problem.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

It is also an issue in the following scenario:

1. User goes to the dash and filters on one category
2. User searches for an available application and installs it
3. If the application is not in the same category in software center/desktop files then the application will not appear in the list of installed applications with the fame filter applied

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Pasted anyway, because I hunted it out before MPT found the dup.

  unity-place-applications-0.2.36/src/daemon.vala

    private void populate_section_queries ()
    {
      /* XDG category names. Not for translation. */
      /* We need the hack for ALL_APPLICATIONS below because Xapian doesn't
       * like '' or '*' queries */
      section_queries.add ("NOT category:XYZ"); //ALL_APPLICATIONS
      section_queries.add ("category:Utility"); //ACCESSORIES
      section_queries.add ("category:Game"); //GAMES
      section_queries.add ("category:Network"); //INTERNET
      section_queries.add ("(category:AudioVideo OR category:Graphics)"); //MEDIA
      section_queries.add ("category:Office"); //OFFICE
      section_queries.add ("(category:System OR category:Settings)"); //SYSTEM
    }

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-place-applications - 0.2.38-0ubuntu1

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unity-place-applications (0.2.38-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Unity: Alt-F2 not working (LP: #580295)
    - "Find More Apps" shows only six applications by default (LP: #729023)
    - [dash] Newly installed applications are not shown in the "Installed"
      section though they disappeared from the "Available" section
      (LP: #719400)
    - Dash filter categories should be identical to the Software Center
      categories (LP: #729013)
    - looking for 'places' icons in the wrong location (LP: #727672)
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on libgconf2-dev
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:50:21 +0100