Dash search restricted to title of items
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| unity-lens-files |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The search in dash is only restricted to the titles of programs, files, folders, etc. and that's very inconvenient - consider this example case: user is looking to play music and searches 'music' in the dash, but the title of Banshee Media Player doesn't say "music", so the user ends with installation recommendation of Rhythmbox Music Player.
The problem is magnified by convenient web search engines like Google. Users are used to find what they're looking with the vaguest of related words. But when searching in the dash, the restrictiveness will be felt manifold.
The search items should not be restricted to the title, but also description, file types, etc. So even if you do not remember the name of the item, you can easily find whatever you're looking for.
| affects: | unity → unity-place-files |
