deskbar-applet does not correctly handle search queries that contain spaces
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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deskbar-applet |
Unknown
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Medium
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deskbar-applet (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: deskbar-applet
I'm running the i386 flavor of Ubuntu Edgy Eft beta. I do not have beagle installed. The version of deskbar-applet installed is 2.16.0-0ubuntu3.
When searching for a string that contains one or more spaces, deskbar-applet does not include the space characters as part of the search string. This has various effects on the deskbar-applet plug-ins.
For instance, the gnome-dictionary plug-in opens a separate dictionary window for each term that is separated by a space instead of searching for that exact phrase in the dictionary (e.g. searching for "Et cetera" opens two instances of gnome-dictionary, one for "Et" and one for "cetera" but neither window displays the correct definition.)
The gnome-search-tool plug-in is also affected. Using deskbar-applet to search for the string "free as in freedom" results in only one instance of gnome-search-tool that searches for "free". The rest of the search query is ignored.
Changed in deskbar-applet: | |
status: | Unknown → Rejected |
Changed in deskbar-applet: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Just confirming this. I don't know if this will be passed upstream or if others will even consider this a bug, but it does seem inconsistent that, say, the Wikipedia handler will pass the entire query, while the dictionary will not. Although words with whitespace aren't all that common, they exist.