After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 714856 - search highlighting is confusing
search highlighting is confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: search
master
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-02 07:51 UTC by Charles Lindsay
Modified: 2016-06-19 08:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 23:12:57 UTC


---- Reported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-07-02 12:51:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7191
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7191
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7191
Original author: Charles Lindsay
Original description:

When you do a search and click on a resulting conversation, we highlight all
tokens individually that match the tokens the database matched. Even saying it
is confusing. For example, if you search for `johndoe@example.com`, we
highlight all instances of `johndoe`, `example`, and `com`, even when those
instances didn't contribute to a database match.

This is confusing, misleading people that the wrong results are being returned
from the database. We should highlight only the token sequence that caused the
database to return a match to the query.

Related issues:
related to geary - 7183: underscore treated as punctuation by search (Need Information)
related to geary - 7205: Special-case common search patterns that require
punctuation (Fixed)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-09-04 16:21:00 -0700 ----

### History

####

#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 5 months ago

  * **Target version** set to _0.4.0_

####

#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 23:12 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7191 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7191

Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
   Dropping resolution 

Comment 1 Jim Nelson 2014-10-21 22:09:56 UTC
*** Bug 738340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Michael Gratton 2016-06-19 08:52:00 UTC
Marking as fixed since the fix for Bug 720361 included some code (ConversationViewer::add_literal_matches) to take care of this situation.