Irrelevant items are shown when searching in System Settings

Settings do matching on the name and keywords, not sure why "sound" is matching the online account, but it's normal that "at" matches things like "updates" which contains the substring ... why do you consider that as a bug?

Hi Sebstien,
Sorry for the confusion. I just listed all items.

Here are items that I thought irrelevant:
for "Sound": "Accounts"
for "at": "Cellular", "Sound", "Language & Text", "Brightness"

Hi Wenfang, could you please open the Account applet and check if any of the existing accounts have a name which contains "sound"? Then also try to click on the "Add account" button and see if you find something matching in the list of the available providers.
Likely you'll find SoundCloud there.

Hi Alberto,

No sub-items matches "sound" in "Accounts".
And yes there is "SoundCloud" in "Add account" list.

I didn't look at the online account details, but I guess it pushes its account names as keywords

Yes, we use account names, and also account providers names. So, if you have the Soundcloud account plugin available, it's expected that searching for "sound" will also return the "Accounts" result.

Hi Alberto
Thank you. In my case it must be matching the SoundCloud provider.
This does explain with arale device -- all the filtered items either match or have sub-item match the keywords "sound"/"at".

While do you know why it does not perform the same with krillin?
-- when searching "sound", only "Sound" is filtered out. Meantime SoundClode is also available under Accounts.

http://people.canonical.com/~wsi/1446086-search_SystemSettings/krillin_Accounts.png
http://people.canonical.com/~wsi/1446086-search_SystemSettings/krillin_search_sound.png

Hi Alberto,
Agree with you, the behavior to filter out sub-item matchings makes sense.
Marking this as Invalide.

Thanks,
Wenfang

Actually, Wenfang was right here. It doesn't matter that the word "updates" contains the string "at". What matters is that (1) nobody would ever try to find Updates by typing "at", and (2) there is an easy way to prevent that class of spurious results. We solved this years ago for Ubuntu Software Center. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Interpreting_search_text>

Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemSettings?action=diff&rev2=68&rev1=67>

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+15.10.20150527-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+15.10.20150527-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

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