Dash - The Dash doesn't give results when searching using key letters
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayatana Design |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
John Lea | ||
| Unity |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-2d |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-applications |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-files |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-2d (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-files (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
The dash doesn't find files when searching for key letters (letter sequences), which will be helpful when you don't remember the exact name of the file. It does find files if the words are separated by space, but when the words are separated by '_' it doesn't.
Examples:
1) Two files 'backup_banshee.sh' and 'backup banshee.sh'. If I type in the dash 'backup' , both files will show up. However if I type 'banshee' only 'backup banshee.sh' will show up.
2) Two files 'Amenda 02' and 'Amenda02'. If I type in the dash 'amenda' , both files will show up. However if I type '02' only 'Amenda 02' will show up.
3) Other files appear as results, files that don't have anything to to with the search. See the bkp.png screenshot as an example.
See the attached screenshots as example.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Wed Jun 8 08:39:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Alex Moldovan (alexmoldovan) wrote | #1 |
| Alex Moldovan (alexmoldovan) wrote | #2 |
| Alex Moldovan (alexmoldovan) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| tags: | added: udo |
| affects: | unity → unity-place-files |
| affects: | unity (Ubuntu) → unity-place-files (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in unity-place-files: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity-place-files (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity-2d: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| affects: | unity → null |
| affects: | unity-2d → unity |
| affects: | unity → null2 |
| Changed in unity-place-files: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel) |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Changed in unity-place-files (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel) |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity-2d: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in null: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
| Changed in null2: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
| Changed in unity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
| Changed in unity-place-files (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
| Changed in unity-lens-files: | |
| assignee: | Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → Omer Akram (om26er) |
| assignee: | Omer Akram (om26er) → nobody |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in unity-lens-files (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| tags: | added: udp |
| Changed in unity: | |
| milestone: | none → backlog |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
| Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote | #5 |
| tags: | added: text-analysis |
| Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | High → Medium |
| Changed in unity-lens-files: | |
| importance: | High → Medium |
| Changed in unity-place-files (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | High → Medium |
| Changed in unity-place-files (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| no longer affects: | null2 |
| no longer affects: | null |
| no longer affects: | unity-place-files (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in unity-lens-files (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | Medium → Low |
| summary: |
- The Dash doesn't give results when searching using key letters + Dash - The Dash doesn't give results when searching using key letters |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| no longer affects: | unity-2d (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in unity: | |
| assignee: | Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) → nobody |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
| assignee: | Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) → nobody |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| Changed in unity-lens-files (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| dino99 (9d9) wrote | #8 |
| Changed in unity-lens-files (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity-lens-files: | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity-2d: | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Invalid |
I think this would be a nice to address. We have some snafu in the code on how to treat underscores (xapian's TermGenerator does not break on underscores - which we shamefully exploit in some cases...). Also breaking on transitions between numerals and characters seems like a sensible thing to do.
This is also very related to breaking words in CamelCase for which I was certain there was a bug logged, but now I can't find it. I'll be using the tag 'text-analysis' to track these kinds of bugs.