No search field

[Scott Severance]

Binary package hint: gnome-main-menu

In screenshots of gnome-main-menu that I've seen, there is a search bar. However, there's no search bar on my machine. Bug #84414 suggests that it might be because beagle isn't running on my machine. But it shouldn't matter whether I have beagle or any other search service running.

The most important feature of a search box would be to quickly provide a way to start programs not listed in the favorites--especially since the application browser takes so long to come up (see bug #105333). Running beagle for the sole purpose of searching menu items (if beagle is even capable of this) is overkill, and I have no other use for beagle since locate works admirably for me.

I'm not sure if I'm reporting this in the right place. I installed the package gnome-main-menu, not slab (which doesn't exist in the edgy repos). I followed a link here from the Launchpad entry for gnome-main-menu.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

So isn't this a duplicate of bug 84414?

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

No, this isn't a duplicate, although on rereading this bug, I can see that I wasn't very clear. This is basically a complaint that the search bar is different from what I would expect. I'd find a search bar that searched for menu entries easier than a beagle search bar--especially since I don't have any use for beagle.

In other words, this bug is about the way the search bar works, not whether it is shown or not. As I write this, it appears to me that this bug is really an upstream bug.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

OK. I'm still not sure about what it should be, so it would be great if you can file it on the upstream bug tracker yourself.

And thanks for reporting this and helping improve Ubuntu.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

It's like a month ago since the latest comment on this bug. Could you report this to the author? (If yes, please provide a link to the entry on their bug tracker).

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

Thomas,

Thanks for the reminder about this long-forgotten bug. I don't know if anyone else is interested in this, but I see that I didn't follow up correctly before. At this point I have no further interest in this bug.

At the time I filed it, I was running Edgy on a fairly ancient laptop. Now I'm running Precise on several more recent machines. I find that the Unity dash accomplishes everything that I was asking for in this bug. Thus, as far as I'm concerned this bug is obsolete.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Scott I'm quite happy that you now have what you wanted. Thank you for taking time and for your reply. Please feel free to report any other problem you detect in Ubuntu.