Launchpad itself

Scope of global search field isn't clear

Bug #84332 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Undecided
Matthew Paul Thomas

Bug Description

Launchpad 1.0's ubiquitous search form is immediately underneath the location bar indicating the current context, and immediately to the right of the structural object title showing the current context. Because of this, it's not clear that the search is a global one. It's also not clear that the form searches products, projects, and distributions, but not bugs, branches, blueprints, etc.

For example, Sarah Hobbs reported: "top right hand search bar - what is this for? bugs, code, products? Needs a description. Neat idea though"

Changing the magnifying glass to "Find Projects" approved by sabdfl, 2007-10-09.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

I would like to suggest that it search the current context (first) -- if I'm looking at a bug in Launchpad I would probably be more interested in searching for other bugs in Launchpad than in searching for another product.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

perhaps have the bug report links, or whichever section you're working on, then have a link for "search all of launchpad"

Or do it google style, where you can search the entire web, or pages from Australia.

The second option may well be better - particularly as people would be used to it with google searching

Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Confirmed
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David Tomaschik (matir) wrote :

I agree - it's very counterintuitive that it does not search for bugs when on a bug page, etc.

I would expect that when I'm in Ubuntu bugs, searching for a term would search the Ubuntu bugs -- and also, I almost never need to search for projects (if I do, I'm more than willing to navigate to the launchpad homepage).

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote :

Any progress on this?

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This will be fixed in the next few months.

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → mpt
milestone: none → 1.2.6
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Alex Mayorga (alex-mayorga) wrote :

Martin Pool's suggestion makes more sense to me, but I guess sabdfl knows better.

Can I add that the search box should be "intelligent enough to know" that when one inputs more than 3 or 4 straight digits one pretty certainly is looking for a bugger anyway?

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
milestone: 1.2.6 → 1.99
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Fixed in mainline, r6629. Please report biasing results from the current context as a separate bug.

Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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