File search results (Super+F) should prioritize recent files more

Bug #1632213 reported by Dan Dascalescu
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Bug Description

TL;DR - Super+F search results are frustratingly not bringing up a file named exactly the query string (with the .xlsm extension).

I've been researching insurance brokers in a file called ib.xlsm for the past few days, and I must've searched for that file by name via Super+F, and clicked on it, tens of times by now. However, Super+F followed by "ib" brings up anything BUT that file. That file is also one of the most recently modified files in the system (minutes ago).

The Super+F results don't include the file. Instead they include, for example,

* favicons.zip, in a directory happening to contain the query string in its name
* another file from that directory that doesn't have the query string anywhere in its name
* /c/download/Linux/meld-3.16.2/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/meld/conf.py

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Dan Dascalescu (ddascalescu+launchpad) wrote :

I had listed two more files from the meld directory, but Lauchpad appears to have cut them off (!)

* /c/download/Linux/meld-3.16.2/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/meld/diffutil.py

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Dan Dascalescu (ddascalescu+launchpad) wrote :

Yup, another bug, this time in Launchpad. The last item was cut off as I sent the comment above. Please see the screenshot for other files returned by Super+F.

* /c/download/Linux/meld-3.16.2/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/meld/diffutil.py
* /c/download/Linux/meld-3.16.2/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/meld/filediff.py

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