Thanks for reporting this. I'm going to talk to the developer of the indexing library we use (libcolumbus) to see what we can do about it, as this behaviour is obviously quite broken.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to hud in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279490 Title: Global menu searching obvious matches don't match Status in Unity HUD: New Status in “hud” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, I'm trying, in Gimp, to press Alt and then select the `Image -> Crop to Selection` item by matching against 'crop to selection' but that doesn't bring up that result. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20131106.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.27-generic 3.13.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Feb 12 21:53:49 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-12 (1219 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-10-26 (109 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hud/+bug/1279490/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp