It appears that we match word prefixes only (which is arguably a good choice): "ath" does not find "LibreOffice Math", but "math" does. However there are some cases where U8's implementation is annoying.
Example: Search "si" Unity7 returns: "Simple Scan", "Universal Access", "Disk Usage Analyzer", "Passwords and Keys". Unity8 returns: "P: Password...", "S: Simple Scan", "U: Universal..." So Unity7 is returning the more useful result first, but it's still not perfect. I would have said the perfect answer would be to only return "Simple Scan" for "si". If we did that then the alphabetical split would not matter (only one result returned). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671834 Title: [unity8] searching in app drawer with a lot of apps can make you type a lot Status in Canonical System Image: New Status in Ubuntu UX: New Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: ubuntu 17.04 unity8 [unity8] searching in app drawer with a lot of apps can make you type a lot so, now i have a lot of apps in the app drawer and i'm trying to find screencastrecorder i have to type 4 letter before i see what i'm looking for. if i type "s", i get a lot of things that i'm not looking for A,B,C,D,E.. etc S is not even in the screen, same with "se" see screenshots so yeah, have a lot of apps installed, if you can the all Alphabet, search for stuff, see how long it takes to find what you are looking for To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1671834/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
