Issue with brand new app folders

[Alfredo Hernández]

Hello there,

I've been testing GNOME 3.8 for a week or so. After enabling both
*gnome3-team/gnome3
*and *gnome3-team/gnome3-staging* PPAs, everything works smooth and every
package has been updated properly. The only thing that I've noticed that
doesn't work is the new tray kinectical invocation, which I belive it's
hasn't been implemented to the PPAs yet, and I'm fine with that.

*Now, the issue*. I love the new behaviour of the application organisating
system, but sincerely I didn't want to have all my apps altogether in the "*All
applications*" view. So that, I enabled a few app-folder categories (the
content of each app-folder is automatic, as they are shown in Alacarte):

> *gsettings set org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories "['Accessories',
> 'Games', 'Graphics', 'Internet', 'Multimedia', 'Office', 'System',
> 'Utilities']"*

Now, all my apps are in folders according to the category its *.desktop* file
specifications, which is the behaviour I would expect; if I know the app I
want to launch, I search it by its name, but if I don't remember the name,
it will never find it in the "*All apps*" view (which is quite obviously, I
don't remember the app). If I have my apps in folders (which is better than
the old categories organisation in my opinion) I can look for them in their
folder (something that I cretainly know).

The problem is that *not all applications app-folder can be reached by
doing a search*, more *specifically: Accessories, Internet, Graphics and
Office*. That means that if I try to launch Transmission, gedit, Evolution
or The GIMP, for instance, GNOME Shell won't show them. But if I try to
launch Mahjongg or Rhythmbox, or any app that doesn't belong to the
categories above, the search engine works perfectly.

Also, what is rare, is that when you enable the app-folders, there's a
chance of them being added (i.e., duplicated) to the "*Others*" category.
So, *if you try to reproduce this, please disable Others* via alacarte (or
manually editing the *desktop-directories *files).

I don't know if this is a general bug or it's just happening to me. Thanks
in advance.

Regards, Alfredo.
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