Searching returns "Unknown error" e.g. "The URI ‘xref:search=orca’ could not be parsed." [wishlist: more helpful error message]

[Alan Jenkins]

I have the Orca screen reader installed. Clicking on it's "help" button shows the Orca documentation, as expected.

However, if I run "gnome-help" manually, and then type "orca" in the location bar and press enter, I get an error:

    Unknown Error
    The URI ‘xref:search=orca’ could not be parsed.

It's completely possible that I've neglected to install the package that implements this feature. But Ubuntu has spoilt me - I'm expecting a better class of error message. Usually Ubuntu is very good about telling you if there's a missing package, and what you need to install to make it work as intended.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: yelp 3.0.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 27 11:43:50 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=C:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-19 (7 days ago)

[Alan Jenkins (aj504)]

Note that if you click on the up-down arrow button, which is to the right of the location bar, it suggests "search" as one of the options (if you click this, it just lets you type in the location bar, tarting it up with a nice search icon). So it's not too much to expect that just typing in the location bar would work as a search.

(And yes, I get exactly the same error message whether or not I select the "search" option before typing "orca").

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's an upstream decision and the bug should be filed at bugzilla.gnome.org by someone interested on it.