GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679953
Search shows "Document viewer" before "Documents"
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:07:55 UTC
Having neither "Documents" nor "Document viewer" in the dash, if I hit the Super key, and type "Docu" , "Document Viewer" is sorted ahead of "Documents" in the results. Whitespace is appearantly sorted before letters in this case, is this on purpouse or just to confuse me.
Unsure if this is even a bug, just a usability snag that started to annoy me. Setting as enhancement.
We also take frequency of use into account, so that may be an explanation as well.
Frequency of use based on how? Based on launched from gnome-shell, or based on amount of times double-clicking or downloading a PDF file? If all uses ( launched as a viewer ) are counted, evince would win 100% of the time, which isn't what I want when I'm manually starting it. If it's counting on the usage-frequency from launching it, then I'm scratching my head even more.
How long the application has been left running, normalized with respect to all other applications. See the full details in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/application_state.
Thankyou, I'll investigate further on the system in question.
I noticed this bug too. It's really unfortunate that Evince comes up first, since we expect users to open Documents to find e.g. a PDF that will open in Evince, but generally not start Evince directly. As other "finding and reminding" applications are coming, we may want to mark them with a higher priority as others? I mean: these are more like places than applications. They are not used for a long time (thus they get a low priority), and yet they have a high importance.
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