gnome-shell application search much less useful in f18

[Elad Alfassa]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Ryan <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/12 06:43, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> On 10/26/2012 05:23 PM, Ryan wrote:
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>>> 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<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864593>
>>> [2] - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=685824<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685824>[3] -
>>> https://apps.fedoraproject.**org/tagger/dstat<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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>
> The GNOME upstream has now begun updating the keywords in the desktop
> files for all the core gnome apps, and their progress can be viewed by this
> wikipage:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/**GnomeGoals/DesktopFileKeywords<https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/DesktopFileKeywords>
>
> However, will the changes that are currently being commited to gnome be
> available in f18? Also there are a lot of applications packaged in Fedora
> that are not core gnome apps. What is the best way to go about getting
> keywords added to these packages?
>
> --ryanlerch
>
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I suggest starting a Fedora wikipage to track the effort to add the
keywords to non-gnome applications. Have a table with a list of components,
status, and links to bug reports upstream.


-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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