Application Menu Indicator

HUD searching method is hard to fathom

Bug #921275 reported by Alan Bell on 2012-01-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #921068: HUD search results for full words are not matching correctly. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Application Menu Indicator	Incomplete	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

typing "junk mail" into the HUD with thunderbird running and useful options come and go as you type things. It is particularly bad at hiding things when you get to the end of a word, so "jun" is more accurate than "junk" which is a bit odd.

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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote on 2012-01-24:

hud.ogv Edit (1.6 MiB, video/ogg)

attached video shows the issue, it is quite reproducible across other applications

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote on 2012-01-25:

Interesting. What would help the most is if we could turn this into a test case. The test cases that we need is a set of menus, some search strings, and what the right answer should be for each of those. For instance:

  File > New
  File > Open
  File > Close

Search for:

   Op -> #2
   op -> #2
   os -> #3

If you could put your issue in that manner we should be able to add it to the tunning suite that we have for the HUD search. Thanks!