With the introduction of libcolumbus and fuzzy matching it now (13.10)
works as described in this bug report (one can argue it's too tolerant
and fuzzy).
** Changed in: unity-lens-applications
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
** No longer affects: unity
** Changed in: unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/752259
Title:
Dash - Add sub-string matching to Dash search
Status in Ayatana Design:
Fix Committed
Status in Unity Applications Lens:
Fix Committed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “unity-lens-applications” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Not a bug specifically, but...
It would be really nice if, when you hit Super and start typing the
name of an application you wish to open, Unity behaved more like
GNOME-Do. What I mean is that in Unity's current form, you have to
type the proper name of the application. Whereas in GNOME-Do, you can
just hit a few characters from it and it will find it for you. For
example, "Synaptic Package Manager". In Unity you have to start typing
S Y N, but in GNOME-Do you could type S M or S P or S P M, etc and it
knows what you mean. The letters don't have to be adjacent to each
other in the name of the application for GNOME-Do, but they must be in
Unity. This would be a nice little feature to have, and would make
Unity that little bit more unifying.
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Second description of same issue from dupe bug:
This could be seen as a wishlist, but in my opinion the current
behavior is unexpected.
When using dash and starting writing the name of the application/file,
I expected the match being done with *all* the name of the
application, not just the *start*. I mean, if I type "dict", I expect
to see both "Dictionary" and "StarDict". I notices this several time;
you often remember part of the name of the application and sometime it
is not the start of it.
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