[ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

[Alan Bell]

lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes. 
They can then use what the user has typed in whatever way they want to 
get results. This means that one could be doing a substring search, 
others an exact match, others case insensitive etc. So if it isn't doing 
a very good search this is a bug in the individual lens, not a general 
thing across all of them. There is a tradeoff between fuzzyness and 
accuracy. Personally I am pretty unimpressed with the results of fuzzy 
searches (like the HUD does) because it produces random unexpected 
results that kind of anticipate me failing to type stuff correctly. If I 
typed "and" I would *not* expect something starting with H to get in the 
way of what I was actually looking for, if I wanted something starting 
with H I would have typed it.

On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
> words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
> capitalisation.
>
> For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a
> description of "HandBrake". The capital letter B is significant. If I
> search for "hand" or "brake", it appears. If I search for "Handbrake",
> "handb", or anything that crosses the capital B, the search fails.
>
> Further, if I search for "and", it doesn't find HandBrake at all. Searches
> must begin at the start of a word. This *really* needs to be fixed.
>
> The Mint menu doesn't have a problem with any of these.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
> On 2012-09-25 15:26, Bill B. wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am curious as to why there is all this fuss about a
>> not-yet-fully-released dash and how it has distracted all attention away
>> from the dash's real problems.
>>
>> As an example I would cite the failure of the apps lens to properly show
>> required applications... I run 12.4.1 fully updated and have a few [12]
>> games installed on my netbook for when I'm away and bored.  I know I
>> have 12 games installed but have yet to find a search to display them as
>> a result.  e.g "games" displays 1, "game" displays 6... perhaps for the
>> whole selection I should type "oi! get it right"!
>>
>> Good move, you clever Canonocallies... nothing like a bit of fog to
>> cover up in true American presidential election stylie  ;)
>>


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