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=864...
>> [2] -
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=685824<https://bugzilla.g...
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>>
https://apps.fedoraproject.**org/tagger/dstat<https://apps.fedoraproje...
>>
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> 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.g...
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.
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-Elad Alfassa.