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Bug 764570 - substring searches not working
substring searches not working
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 764417
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gio
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-04 03:58 UTC by Asif Ali Rizvan
Modified: 2017-09-13 12:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
substring 'office' searched in nautilus to show libreoffice-writer.txt (92.72 KB, image/png)
2016-04-04 03:58 UTC, Asif Ali Rizvan 		Details
w t r letters also get libreoffice-writer which is true substring searching (83.89 KB, image/png)
2016-04-04 04:00 UTC, Asif Ali Rizvan 		Details

Description Asif Ali Rizvan 2016-04-04 03:58:50 UTC 
Created attachment 325300 [details]
substring 'office' searched in nautilus to show libreoffice-writer.txt

say I want to launch libreoffice-writer, typeing libre or wri will get me the libreoffice writer, but not "riter" or "office" which is really not good substring search.

nautilus search does this right, make a text file named "libreoffice writer" and using nautilus if we search for riter or office, the search result shows it.

Please update the substring behavior for better ease of use. Thanks.
Comment 1 Asif Ali Rizvan 2016-04-04 04:00:43 UTC 
Created attachment 325301 [details]
w t r letters also get libreoffice-writer which is true substring searching
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2016-04-04 07:02:57 UTC 
Application search is implemented in GIO, reassigning.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-05 00:41:21 UTC 
g_desktop_app_info_search currently does a prefix match.
Comment 4 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2016-04-05 12:00:39 UTC 
There's also a bug open for using fuzzy matching: bug 764417.
Comment 5 Philip Withnall 2017-09-13 12:03:43 UTC 
Let’s mark this as a duplicate of #764417 then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 764417 ***