GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 359912
Key search in "Open with" -> "Other application" Applications List is searching by binary name instead app title
Last modified: 2007-06-01 13:07:53 UTC
Please describe the problem: The list of applications in "Open With" -> "Other application" show applications titles. When try to search its find by binary name instead of app title. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Nautilus. Rigth-click on file, and choose "Open With" -> "Other application" 2. Try to find typing the application title. The list incorrecly find by binary name. For example, if i start typing "Gestor de archivadores" the list goes to any item. But if i type "file-roller" the list go to "Gestor de archivadores" 3. Actual results: The list go to incorrect item Expected results: The list go to item that you start typing by app title. Does this happen every time? Yes, always. Other information:
Confirming, updating bug metadata. The issue seems to be that we have multiple string columns in the open with dialog tree view's model.
Reassigning to eel.
Created attachment 74082 [details] [review] Proposed patch, flavor A The attached patch sets the search column to the name column instead of the path (i.e. the "Exec") column.
Created attachment 74084 [details] [review] Proposed patch, flavor B The attached patch implements a custom search function that will search in all columns, i.e. "name", "comment" and "path" (i.e. Exec). The advantage is that you can find apps by its binary name and by its menu name. The disadvantage is that you can't easily list all apps beginning with a particular letter, since most letters will match a comment or a binary name, at least it's sometimes not obvious why entering "file-roller" jumps to "Archive Manager" instead of "FooBarApp". Maybe we could use this variant after removing the comment-related bits, after all the user usually won't know how the comment begins, but power users know the prefix of the binary name.
Otto: One additional question: What file type wasn't associated that should have been mapped to file-roller? Let's file another bug report on the issue! :)
Just an example ;) The first binary-name that comes to my mind :)
So maybe you still inform us what association wasn't correct/existant? We're trying to make the MIME data as complete as possible so that you won't have to mess around with it, and we'll forward your griefs to the appropriate persons.
Ummm... open .asp ( puajk :) ) with Quanta Plus... im going to open a bug with this...
I agree with approach B, but not matching on the comment. Please remove matching on the comment and commit.
Hi Christian, Is there any news on this patch? (I don't want to offense you, just to poke you a little, perhaps a patch is lying on your hard drive :)) Thanks
Ubuntu bug about that on https://bugs.launchpad.net/eel/+bug/112842, maybe the patch could be commited?
"Proposed patch, flavor B" committed after removal of comment-related code. Sorry that I didn't react earlier, but the bug noise is massive and I don't have time to read through all of it.