Scale/Spread Search does not use applications name

Bug #1281297 reported by Brandon Schaefer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Bug Description

To reproduce:

1) Open 2 gnome-terminal
2) Super+W (to go into scale mode)
3) type "terminal"

Expected:
  The 2 gnome-terminals to be left as valid matches.

Result:
  Empty search results on the gnome-terminals.

Also, based on a duplicate:
I propose that not only are the windows in spread filtered by title, but also by
- application name, e.g. "gnome terminal"
- generic name, e.g. "web browser"
- application category, e.g. "multimedia"

Related branches

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.2.0
description: updated
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.2.0+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (7.2.0+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * Release 7.2.0.

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * CompizUtils: only shadow-decorate alpha windows that have full
    decorations as well Since alpha windows might have custom shapes,
    it's safer not to shadow-decorate them unless they don't provide,
    for sure, a full decoration. (LP: #1281825)
  * Panel, Decorations: draw the background under the text glyphs before
    the text itself (LP: #723167)
  * PanelMenuView: use panel style context for painting the panel title
    (LP: #1296866)
  * SpreadFilter: use launcher width, scale on HiDPI, match also
    application names Launcher Width is now considered in setting the
    offset of the scale filter (fixes padding when launcher is in
    autohide mode). The search bar is correctly scaled when in HiDPI
    mode. We use ApplicationManager and thus BAMF to match windows by
    their name or app name. (LP: #1281297)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:04:11 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Alexey Kulik (doctor-rover) wrote :

First of all, thank you for fixing that )))
But still, an issue remains with this. I use Russian localisation in Ubuntu and if I type "terminal", I still can't see the terminals as matches. This is simply because in Russian, the terminal app is called "Терминал". Obviously, the search is done now only by localised app names.
I believe that search should also be done by original app names.

Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone: 7.2.0 → 7.2.1
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.2.1 → 7.2.0
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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