global_search is called without query string

[Leopard2A5]

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/125121/unity-lens-not-included-in-global-search/125420#comment163274_125420

When searching in the global dash (not with the lens selected) the lens daemon's global_search method is called without/with an empty query string.
I've attached the whole project, you might need pidgin installed and running to debug it, but maybe you don't

P.S.: See project directory/pidgin/__init__.py line 69

[Michael Wild (themiwi)]

The problem is that in /usr/share/pyshared/singlet/lens/base.py in the initializer of class Lens the self._lens.props.search_in_global property is set to False. Hacking around this problem is simple, just override the __init__() method:

class MyLens(SingleScopeLens):
    def __init__(self):
        SingleScopeLens.__init__(self)
        self._lens.props.search_in_global = True

To properly solve this, the property should probably be exposed to child classes.

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

Okay, I was wondering why the lens is visible in the first place if search_in_global is False.

So currently, results *are* shown in the global dash ("home"), but global_search is always called with an empty search.

I guess there should be a simple boolean property (probably in Meta?) that either shows results in the dash home and passes the search string, or completely excludes the results from the dash home. I had guessed that search_in_global is the property that handles this, but obviously it is possible to have search_in_global be False and still show the results in the dash home.