2017-03-25 22:27 GMT+01:00 Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org>: > [ I am NOT the plasma-discover maintainer ] > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:53:20PM -0400, Leand wrote: >> There are basic functions that are bugged. For example, the search >> function returns wrong and unrelated results too many times. If I >> search for "office" or "writer" it doesn't show LibreOffice packages >> or LibreOffice Writer at all. Furthermore in some cases it doesn't > > Looks it looks at Name and/or GenericName in the .desktop files. Here: > > # cat /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop | grep -E > '(.*Name=|.*Name\[en.*\]=)' > Name=LibreOffice Writer > GenericName=Word Processor > GenericName[en]=Word Processor > GenericName[en_GB]=Word Processor > GenericName[en_ZA]=Word Processor > [...] > > So if it takes GenericName before Name it of course doesn't see "LibreOffice > Writer" but > "Word Processor". And also note "office" and "writer" don't even appear in > Name (not the > case), no idea whether the search is case-sensitive, though.
The explanation is even easier here: LO Writer is not in the metadata, because it symlinks files in /usr/share/applications, which the metadata generator doesn't support. See https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/index.html#debian_libreoffice_maintainers_%3cdebian-openoff...@lists.debian.org%3E for the issue information. So, this is not a bug in Discover. Also, all of the issues outlined in this bug report are minor annoyances which do not at all justify the severity of "grave" for this bug report. I am even tempted to close it: * The search results are not Discover's fault, or are intended (see below) * Discover will not show dependencies or packages - it is not a package manager. If you want a package manager, use Apper or Muon. * Displaying unrelated stuff to be removed when removing Gimp is definitely a bug, but creating a clean, new one with normal priority is a better idea here. Also, immediately reporting this upstream will help. >> even display the exact name of the packages in any way, for example >> the package "file-roller" (Gnome's File Roller) is displayed as >> "Archive manager". > > # cat /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop | grep -E > '(.*Name=|.*Name\[en.*\]=)' > Name=Archive Manager > Name[en@shaw]=πΈππ²π π₯π¨π―π©π‘πΌ > Name[en_CA]=Archive Manager > Name[en_GB]=Archive Manager > > So at least the second one is expected. Jup, that's the reason. Nothing we can do here - complain to GNOME for using very generic names. Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
