Bug 1021889 - search matches against fields which aren't displayed in the results (so reason for result being returned is unclear to user)
Summary: search matches against fields which aren't displayed in the results (so reaso...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-software
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-22 09:31 UTC by Tim Lauridsen
Modified: 2016-07-19 10:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 10:30:25 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
result for 'icons' search (112.28 KB, image/png)
2013-10-22 09:31 UTC, Tim Lauridsen
no flags Details
search for icons (3.10.3) (111.12 KB, image/png)
2013-10-31 08:45 UTC, Tim Lauridsen
no flags Details
the basti package (3.10.3) (36.06 KB, image/png)
2013-10-31 08:45 UTC, Tim Lauridsen
no flags Details
screenshot of a search for 'icons' with gnome-software-3.13.4-2.fc21.x86_64 (215.23 KB, image/png)
2014-08-07 13:23 UTC, Adam Williamson
no flags Details

Description Tim Lauridsen 2013-10-22 09:31:59 UTC
Created attachment 814918 [details]
result for 'icons' search

Description of problem:
when searching for 'icons' in gnome-software, i get some strange results, there dont seems relates to 'icons' (Se attachment)
look like gnome-software search in the rpm description, but it don't show it when i select one of the found packages.
This will confuse the users, that a package if found, but there is no visibel infomation containing the search word

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.10.2-1.f20

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.gnome-software
2.search for 'icons'
3.

Actual results:
strange results with no visible infomation containg the search key

Expected results:
packages found by a search, should show the infomation that was used in the search.


Additional info:
Maybe gnome-software should fallback to showing the rpm description, for applications with no appdata or it should not search the rpm description.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2013-10-30 15:35:46 UTC
(In reply to Tim Lauridsen from comment #0)
> Maybe gnome-software should fallback to showing the rpm description, for
> applications with no appdata or it should not search the rpm description.

The designs explicitly forbid this, for good reason. I've taken PK out of the search path now, so I'm pretty sure this should be fixed in 3.10.3, can you please verify? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=474286 -- thanks.

Comment 2 Tim Lauridsen 2013-10-30 15:51:02 UTC
I will test it tomorrow.

I understand you want good descriptions, but think that rpm description is better than no description in a transistion fase.
You are currently using the rpm summary, for packages with no appdata, it is not much better quality than the rpm description.

Comment 3 Tim Lauridsen 2013-10-31 08:44:00 UTC
It is not fixed in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=474286

searching for icons still gives result where there is no trace for the word 'icons'

Comment 4 Tim Lauridsen 2013-10-31 08:45:06 UTC
Created attachment 817755 [details]
search for icons (3.10.3)

Comment 5 Tim Lauridsen 2013-10-31 08:45:57 UTC
Created attachment 817757 [details]
the basti package (3.10.3)

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2014-08-07 13:21:59 UTC
I still see this with current Fedora 21. I don't see the word 'icons' in the appdata description (or indeed in the package description for at least some of them, so I'm not sure where it's coming from), and not all the results seem particularly relevant to the topic - I don't think tweak-tool or k3b is likely to be what anyone's looking for from a search for 'icons'.

Comment 7 Adam Williamson 2014-08-07 13:23:52 UTC
Created attachment 924916 [details]
screenshot of a search for 'icons' with gnome-software-3.13.4-2.fc21.x86_64

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2014-08-07 13:42:46 UTC
Interestingly, it seems like I ran into a second bug. Those results are actually the results for a search for 'icon', but just that one time, I think the live results got stuck at 'icon' and didn't update to the 'icons' result. Now when I search for 'icons' I get only two results, qmpdclient and tweak-tool, both of which have the string 'icons' in their appdata. However, the search for 'icon' returns e.g. mcomix and GIMP and kolourpaint others which AFAICS do not have that string in the description or anywhere else in the information Software provides to the user in the search results list or even in the detailed page for each package.

Comment 9 Kalev Lember 2014-09-20 13:50:41 UTC
When you search for "icon", I believe it's matching the x-icon mime type. Try searching for "portable-anymap" for example, this also finds gimp.

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Comment 11 Adam Williamson 2015-11-04 21:13:26 UTC
Still seems valid on at least F22, a search for 'icon' returns 'Files' (nautilus), Zim Desktop Wiki, Tweak Tool, K3b, Converseen, and gDesklets...

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