deskbar-applet does not correctly handle search queries that contain spaces

[Jonathon Conte]

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.

[Jeremy Teale (jteale)]

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.

[Jeremy Teale (jteale)]

I just realized how stupid that sounds. What I'm trying to say is, dictionary queries that include whitespace aren't all that common as dictionaries usually contain single-word "terms". Yet some valid terms, like "Et Cetera," in a dictionary do contain whitespace.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Somebody of the team should forward this upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Should be fixed in Feisty now.