Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 14 November 2012 19:05, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 4 November 2012 22:22, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: We've had good success with 'adopting' a few GnomeGoals[1] as official targets for 3.6, and we want to repeat this for 3.8. And here are new goals that

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-16 Thread Emily Gonyer
I think that's a great point. Being able to type in 'games' or 'internet' or 'office' and seeing a list of applications in that category would be fantastic. Emily On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 14 November 2012 19:05, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Henrique Ferreiro henrique.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: Finally, I did a blog post about the Ubuntu desktop help (which is a branch of the GNOME Desktop Help). I suggested that users type Help into the Unity Dash to see the help. One of my readers doesn't use the

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Rovanion Luckey
One of the best things with the MintMenu is/was that it both matched the English and Translated name and description of the application so that you could find applications by both. This was extremely useful when the user was receiving support via IRC/Mail or was reading an online guide.

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 15/11/2012 09:19, Henrique Ferreiro a écrit : Matching on any of the languages installed in the desktop would probably be the most sensible way to do it. Hi, Not sure matching in other languages, including english, is a good idea. The typical $locale user is searching for a word in his

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Henrique Ferreiro
Not sure matching in other languages, including english, is a good idea. The typical $locale user is searching for a word in his language, likely having no clue that english has a similar looking word with totally different meaning ... the net result is that he will get listed something

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 15/11/2012 09:19, Henrique Ferreiro a écrit : Matching on any of the languages installed in the desktop would probably be the most sensible way to do it. Hi, Not sure matching in other languages, including

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Henrique Ferreiro henrique.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: Users are usually going to install languages they know. ... on distributions that package language support separately. However it is not uncommon to ship all available languages for an application within the

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Henrique Ferreiro
Users are usually going to install languages they know. ... on distributions that package language support separately. However it is not uncommon to ship all available languages for an application within the main package. By installed languages I wanted to say the selected display

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:48 +0100, Henrique Ferreiro wrote: Not sure matching in other languages, including english, is a good idea. The typical $locale user is searching for a word in his language, likely having no clue that english has a similar looking word

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:26:22 + Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:48 +0100, Henrique Ferreiro wrote: Not sure matching in other languages, including english, is a good idea. The typical $locale user is searching for a word in

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 15/11/2012 19:43, Alan Cox a écrit : That very phrase shows some ignorance of language use in much of the world Right, that was a simplification, I guess the key point would be to try to not search in a language the user doesn't know... Sebastien Bacher

Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

2012-11-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 November 2012 22:22, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: We've had good success with 'adopting' a few GnomeGoals[1] as official targets for 3.6, and we want to repeat this for 3.8. And here are new goals that we want to tackle this cycle: DesktopFileKeywords - add a