gnome-shell application search much less useful in f18

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 10/26/2012 05:23 PM, Ryan wrote:
> While I have been testing out the fedora 18 beta, i noticed a significant
> change in the behaviour of the search in the overview mode. A good example
> of this is if you search for either "browse" or "web" in F17, you will get
> firefox in the results. However, in f18, searching for "browse" or "web"
> does not show firefox at all.
> 
> I discovered this a few weeks ago, and filed bugs both against fedora[1]
> and upstream in gnome[2], and the gnome bug has some insight into what has
> changed. Previously, in f17, the gnome-shell search matched against the
> fields for Name, Command and Comment. However in Gnome 3.6 in f18, it no
> longer matches against the Comment field.
> 
> According to the response in the gnome bugzilla, the gnome-shell tool does
> now match against "keywords" that are specified in the desktop file, but it
> seems that not many desktop files have relevant keywords specified.
> 
> In short, there are a lot of search terms that people were able to use in
> f17 that will now be broken in f18, as the majority of desktop files do not
> have relevant keywords specified.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best plan is to fix this. The tagger app for fedora
> does have a lot of great keyword data already for packages, but it seems
> like a lot of work to update every package with keyword metadata when the
> old way worked, even though it was a bit crufty and matched "in"s and "on"s
> and other small words in the comment field.
> 
> cheers, ryanlerch [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864593 
> [2] - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685824 [3] -
> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger/dstat


I think we should fix this, as it really hurts the functionality.  Put back
the searching for comments for F18 and then open a Feature page to get a real
fix for this in Fedora 19.

Searching for email brings back nothing?  powerpoint?

This is another drop in usability.

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