Created attachment 901186 [details] "No application found" screenshot Description of problem: When I search inside the Software app, there are never any results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-software-3.10.4-2.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open GNOME Software app 2. Choose e.g. Firefox, or some software shown under Picks, and enter its name in the search box 3. Press return. Actual results: "No application found" as per screenshot Expected results: Matching software should be listed. Additional info: 1. This is a very recent install on my desktop. It also happens on my laptop (also a fresh install, though not quite so recent). 2. Both systems download software through a caching proxy. So I have edited some of the YUM config files. 3. "yum search firefox" works fine. 4. Software seems to work OK otherwise. I can click in Categories and view & install software that way.
Aha! An updates popup just appeared, and the search started working again. So the problem seems to be that the search function silently breaks when updates are being found/downloaded silently in the background.
Yes, it's a known shortcoming of the PackageKit yum backend that it can't do multiple things at the same time. In F20, PackageKit uses the yum backend, but in F21 we've switched to a hawkey backend which is going to give a much better experience: it's faster and allows doing things simultaneously. Sadly, there's nothing we can do for F20 here since we've promised FESCo to keep using the yum backend there. Sorry!