As an experiement I've changed the apps place to use relevancy ranking instead of alphabetic sorting for searches. When there is no search we still list alphabetically of course. Modulo stopwords[1] I think this works very well - a lot better than the current approach at least.
[1]: See fx. bug #730481 ** Branch linked: lp:~kamstrup/unity-place-applications/relevancy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636996 Title: not installed apps sorting in global search -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
