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

2012-09-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-25 23:20, Alan Pope wrote: 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. Is there a bug filed about these issues you

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

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
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

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

2012-09-25 Thread 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

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

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
Having said this, handb and handbrake should work. In which case, this sounds like a defect against unity-lens-applications should be raised. On 25/09/12 17:44, Alan Bell wrote: lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes. They can then use what the user has typed in

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

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Bell
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. what is that then? trying to reproduce your issue but

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

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/09/12 17:56, Alan Bell wrote: 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. what is that

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

2012-09-25 Thread Avi Greenbury
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

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

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Pope
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. Is there a bug filed about these issues you outlined? If not, could you please file one/some