GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 683610
gedit is not found in GNOME Shell when searching for "text"
Last modified: 2012-09-09 15:12:19 UTC
Today my girlfriend wanted to take some quick notes on my laptop. As she's not a GNOME user normally, she didn't know the text editor was called gedit. So she searched for the word "text" in the GNOME Shell entry, and the only result was the launcher for the A11y panel of the GNOME Control Center. So I had to tell her to launch gedit instead. I'm attaching a patch that fixes this issue.
Created attachment 223801 [details] [review] [PATCH] Searching for 'text' in GNOME Shell should return gedit
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
What about "Editor" as a keyword as well?
Also please make keywords translatable, because now they are useless in any language other than English.
Created attachment 223829 [details] [review] [PATCH] Make desktop file 'Keywords' translatable (In reply to comment #4) > Also please make keywords translatable, because now they are useless in any > language other than English. Oops, sorry about that. :-/ I'm not entirely sure, so please review carefully, but is the attached patch enough?
My fault for no having spotted the translation issue in the review... Mathieu tha patch looks correct, but since we are string frozen please ask for permission to gnome-i18n@gnome.org Nacho: I do not think "editor" is specific enough to go there (e.g. pitivi is a video editor etc)
Sure, but wouldn't you like all the editors to appear in the shell if you are looking for them?
I pushed the patch after getting permission from the i18n team: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2012-September/msg00086.html Nacho: not sure, doesn't seem to me a particularly helpful behavior: if I am looking for a text editor and I get a video editor or vice versa. I prefer the search to fail and "teach me" that's not a good keyword... Anyway, if there are some guidelines on which kind of keywords we should put here we can revisit this issue in the next cycle.