Quick search uses OR operator

Bug #357821 reported by glaroc
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Bug Description

If you type "firefox plugin" in the synaptic quick search (in Intrepid), you get all results that have the word firefox OR plugin, leading to hundreds of results. This makes it really hard to narrow down a search.

The easy solution to this is to use the AND operator. Searching for "firefox plugin" should give you results that have the words firefox AND plugin.

On brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18996/

glaroc (glaroc)
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glaroc (glaroc)
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tags: added: operator quick search synaptic
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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote :

Yes its very strange.. I also wanted to report but didnt know if it will be changed if ill report..
Yes saerch standarts somewhere maybe can be found maybe in w3c
Im allways using google to find precise name couse synaptic has this problem.. Yes search needs improovement.. maybe there is some search guidelines like in www.w3.org or make search like google does..
Synaptic only needs to show all firefox plugins if searched in synamptic firefox plugin not all firefox and all plugins of other programms

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