Can't distinguish between identical commands in HUD

Bug #998356 reported by Jerry Quinn
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Bug Description

Having started playing with the HUD, I've encountered the following issue. I'm using thunderbird, but also have evolution installed on my machines. When I start to type "comp" in the HUD, I see

Messages->Compose new message
Messages->Compose new message

as well as other choices. One corresponds to telling thunderbird to create a new mail, the other, however, starts evolution to try to send mail. As I'm using thunderbird, I really don't want to start a different package to send a message.

There needs to be some means of dealing with this, without having to guess what the difference is. One possibility is to put the app name in parens if there's multiple identical choices. Another is to prefer a running app that provides the command. Both might make the most sense.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.3.0-030300rc6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,vpswitch,unitymtgrabhandles,mousepoll,place,resize,move,grid,gnomecompat,regex,snap,wall,session,animation,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sat May 12 03:57:27 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (11 days ago)

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Jerry Quinn (jlquinn) wrote :
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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

HUD should display on the left side an icon indicating the app the command belongs to.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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