[dash] Search field not common to lenses

[Greg Merchan]

After typing in the home lens's search field and seeing no results, I figured I was using the wrong lens so I switched to another one. Because the search field is specific to the lens, I had to retype my search terms.

I didn't realize until I started this report that the home lens search would search all the lenses. (Or, I'm assuming that's what it does now, based on a different search which produced results.)

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UPDATE: This is a bug for the desktop, Unity7.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. The searches made in the home lens is common to all the other lenses installed. However, some 3rd party lenses have the option to not display any results to searches made in the home lens.

For instance, I have 6 lenses installed (5 default - home,file,applications,music and video lens) and (1- 3rd Party lens - Askubuntu). Now a search made in the home lens would provide results from the default lenses installed but not from the askubuntu lens since the developers did enable it.

Hence the searches are common to all lenses and is not a bug. Hence marking this invalid.

[Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan)]

I figured it would be clear that I meant the search field; in fact, I did specify that in the text of the report. Type something, switch to another lens, and the search field no longer contains what was typed.

[Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan)]

Furthermore, if the searches were common to all lenses, then searches made from a lens which is not the home lens would display results from all lenses. Adding "field" to the title and reopening.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

needs design input. But I am quite certain this has been rejected before.

[Kirill Kabardin (kkabardin)]

Bug that I filled was marked as a duplicate of this one. They are quite related, but not really duplicates each other. So I repeat there what I already suggested:

Home lens contains first matches from all lenses. So we can try search whatever we need right here. But if our query doesn't give us enough results we have to switch to more specific lens. But search box would be cleared in this case and we'll have to type query again.

It would be more reasonable not to clear search box when we switching to other lens but leave our query.

At least there should be an option for this.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Dario, thanks a lot for being proactive in assigning bugs to the paper cuts team, but just make sure you only do it on the Hundred Papercuts bug task, rather than the package itself. To add a paper cuts task, click "Also Affects Project" and type "hundredpapercuts".

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

Oh, sorry Chris. Taking notice.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

No worries. Thanks for helping out :)

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Nick, can we have some input from design on this one please? Is this a valid bug or it the current behaviour there by design?

[John Lea (johnlea)]

Marking as won't fix because this bug is assigned to the Unity8 project where it is not relevant.

[Seth Johnson (sethj)]

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there.

[Rodrigo Lledó (rodhos-hp)]

I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there.
The search field needs to be unique.