Created attachment 901188 [details] "No results" screenshot Replicated https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864593 on Fedora 20. (I hit this myself as well, & just now stumbled accross the report). Package version: gnome-shell-3.10.4-2.fc20.x86_64 On Fedora 20, finding the package kit application via search proved somewhat difficult. I tried the search terms, "install", "packages", "add", "remove", all returned no results. "update" doesn't work either. However, a search for "Software" and "application" did result in the package kit application did appear. It appears that gnome-shell search returns results from the commandname (in this case, "gpk-application") and from the name in the desktop file (in this case, "Software"). It does not return any results from the application description from the desktop file (in this case, "Add or remove software installed on the system") (The report also complains about search for "browser" not working, but in F20 this works fine).
(In reply to Alan Jenkins from comment #0) > It does not return any results from the application description from the > desktop file (in this case, "Add or remove software installed on the system") We used to do this, and the results were often confusing (it's obvious why "system" would match "System Monitor" or "System Settings", but "Packages"?). There is a new (optional) Keywords field that has been added to the Desktop Entry standard, which is explicitly aimed at search - gnome-packagekit should add approriate search terms there, reassigning.
wups, actually gnome-packagekit is fine now. But in FC20 we have gnome-software instead, and that's where the problem is. Reassign again. $ grep -r Keywords gnome-packagekit/ gnome-packagekit/data/gpk-application.desktop.in:_Keywords=Updates;Upgrade;Sources;Repositories;Preferences;Install;Store; $ grep -r Keywords gnome-software/ $
Thanks, I've added the same set of keywords to gnome-software as well. It's going to make it to rawhide after gnome-software 3.13.3 upstream release. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=0e0653eb08f2fc75df9309b07dbdddb9ee0e3f13