GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 695223
Improve location entry completion (bad matches for "UK", "GMT", "London", etc)
Last modified: 2021-06-01 22:44:25 UTC
It is quite convenient to have a UTC clock for scheduling meetings and stuff. It is unfortunately pretty hard to do that in Clocks. If I type "utc" or "UTC" in the new entry nothing comes up. If I type "GMT" or "Greenwich" nothing comes up. If I type "UK" I get stuff about the Ukraine and nothing from the United Kingdom. If I type "London" the default/top choice is unexpected and there are lots of different London locations in the list. I doubt they have different clocks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692243 ***
Should I file the other parts of this bug as separate reports?
Right, let's keep this open too with a different summary, though the underlying problem is the same: either the libgweather entry is improved to fit our purpose or we roll our own (or share it with the control center). Note that this is also related to the request of not using just a plain entry for selecting a location: it was requested various times to pick a location from a map
Another example: typing "New York" suggests Albany, New York, United States and a bunch of other cities in the state of New York. Typing "New York, New York" provides no suggestions at all. (For the record, "New York City" works.)
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