Ubuntu Software Center doesn't hint the existence of package 'openjdk-7-jdk' in a regular search

[Shashank VRSN Sabniveesu]

Searching in 'Ubuntu Software Center' for the package 'openjdk-7-jdk' doesn't show up until 'openjdk-7-jd' is entered. Instead the package 'openjdk-7-jre' alone is shown at the very instant, 'openj' is entered.

This requires a user to memorize the entire and exact package name

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This seems to be a side-effect of a categorization error.

openjdk-7-jdk is in the "Developer Tools" > "Java" subcategory.

That "Java" subcategory is supposed to show non-application packages by default, like the "Fonts" category does for example. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Genre>

And that, in turn, is supposed to cause non-application packages in the subcategory to show up by default when searching from the home screen, as you did here. From <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#search-results>: "In search results, a non-application item should be hidden by default ... from the home screen, if its primary subcategory (or, if it has no subcategory, its primary category) does not 'Show non-application packages by default'..."

However, currently the "Java" subcategory hides non-application packages by default, as you can see by browsing to it: "Show 716 technical items".

So we should be able to fix this just by toggling that flag for the "Java" subcategory.