GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 753322
Clocks showing in GNOME search not consistent
Last modified: 2016-05-02 06:39:14 UTC
Created attachment 308854 [details] Search "color" shows wrong clocks. I noticed that sometimes the clock showing up in the GNOME search are wrong. This is not reproduceable every time since there is likely a race condition. Basically if I search "color", the normal output is that I get only the time of "Colorado Springs" in my search results (along with programs, etc.). But sometimes, like in the attached screenshot, I have other places (in the screenshot: "College station", "Conroe", "Corpus Christi", the result obviously took only "co" into account). Not sure if the race happens in GNOME-shell or the clocks program itself, but since I never noticed these kind of wrong results for programs or other special search items, I'm going to take a bet GNOME-clocks is the problem. If that is not where it happens, feel free to move this to GNOME-shell.
Created attachment 308855 [details] No clocks showed! Attached another "color" search result, this time even with no clocks shown! I have a few other screenshots with different results (sometimes obviously stopping at 'c' and showing places in Canada, other times stopping at 'co' and showing the Cook Islands time, etc.) but I will spare you them. I even had one time when I got the expected "Colorada Springs"… but 2 times!
Created attachment 308856 [details] Very strange clock results! Well I'll just show this one, because it is a very weird one. I get 2 times "Zacatecas, Mexico", and "Alexander City, United States". I don't even understand how it could have been returned from "color", even with a race condition (which set of letters would have brought these?)!
Seems related to the symptoms described in bug 737387, for which I am attaching a patch - closing as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 737387 ***