Search facility in Software Center misses obvious hit
Bug #1055247 reported by
Andreas Rönnquist
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| software-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am the debian maintainer of devilspie2 - a continuation of the devilspie project. Now, searching in Ubuntu Software Center for devilspie - I expect to find devilspie2 among the hits. But no, there is only devilspie and gDevilpsie - however if I search for devilspie2, it is found. How come a search for devilspie doesn't add devilspie2 among the found items?
Revision history for this message
| Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Hi Andreas.
Thanks for your interest.
How things currently work is as follows:
- app-install-data extracts the desktop files from all packages and ships these
- software-center will display in the main screen the search results for packages with a desktop file - this is what is happening to gdevilspie
- software-center will hide all remaining search results (ie for packages without desktop files) behind a button 'show XX technical items' which is located in the bottom left of the window (it is a known issue that most people don't notice this) - this is what is happening to devilspie2
- if however there is an *exact* match between the search term and the name of a package, then software-center will 'upgrade' it and treat it as if it had a desktop file - this is what happens to devilspie when searching for devilspie