Fuzzy search in App Lens gives results unrelated to search query

[Paweł Stołowski]

If you type the search query “box white cat potato sun laptop paper tuna coffee god” into the Dash Home, a total of 15 applications under the ‘Applications’ category header are displayed as matching this search query. The first 4 apps that match this search query are Character Map, Time Date, LibreOffice Writer, Image Viewer. Perhaps the libColombus needs tweaking to exclude app search results in the case where the search query really bears no relationship with any of the apps?

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:~unity-team/unity-lens-applications/libunity7-compatible at revision 347, scheduled for release in unity-lens-applications, milestone Unknown

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

The two branches merged so far:
* lp:~stolowski/unity-lens-applications/fuzzy-public-content
* lp:~stolowski/libunity/home-lens-priority-fix

mitigate the problem a bit in Home Lens by moving app lens results down if there are only fuzzy matches. It usually works well for typos but may not work for equally well for all queries because we limit reordering (we don't reorder after 1500 ms).

The original problem however remains valid and unsolved at the moment and according to Jussi, changing libcolumbs requires a lot of work.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".