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Bug 654694 - Section descriptions when searching are never shown in full
Section descriptions when searching are never shown in full
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 654977
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: shell
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-15 18:43 UTC by Dylan McCall
Modified: 2011-07-21 04:10 UTC
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Description Dylan McCall 2011-07-15 18:43:53 UTC
If I search for something in Gnome Control Center's shell and a match is found in the description of one of the sections, the matching substring is shown below the section's name. It looks something like this:

Displays
…- Change resolution and po…

The problem here is the section's description is never actually shown in full — it is only shown in parts like the above via search results. Therefore, the heavily ellipsised text is completely foreign to the user and it is unlikely to communicate anything useful.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-07-21 04:10:07 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 654977 ***