poor search results in gnome-app-install

[James Troup]

When searching for 'opera' in gnome-app-install, there's a couple of problems with the results:

 o The exact name match (i.e. the opera package itself) is so far down the list (8th place) it's not visible by default. Exact name match should be at the top of the list.

 o gnome-app-install seems to be doing searching without any sort of word delineation which is why there are so many search results for 'opera': anything with e.g. 'operation' in the Description is listed. I suppose this might be useful for some search terms and an option to turn this behaviour off may unnecessarily clutter the UI, but it does make the search results quite confusing. (e.g. I can't look at the search results for opera and not help wonder why the heck gthumb is on there)

[Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)]

It gets much worse when universe is enabled as well. Confirming

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

I implemented a ranking in the edgy version of g-a-i. The checkbuttons have been replaced by a combobox that allows you to only show non-free or third party packages.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

O, the situation in edgy is even worse, since I use multipliers for the pop con data. I will add a special case if the search term matches the name or package name.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

If the package or application name matches exactly the search term, the rank gets a plus of 1500.

Waiting for mvo to merge and upload.