Comment 56 for bug 663776

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:00, Shannon <email address hidden> wrote:
> I found a strange issue in dash search.  Since I cannot use Chinese to
> search for applications in dash, I tried to type just "synaptic", but it
> does NOT find synaptic package manager, I may need to search for the
> application name in Chinese, which is not doable due to this bug.
>
> However, I found that some other applications DOES work when searching for
> their executable name, for example I can search for gnome-activity-journal
> directly in dash, although its display name is in Chinese.
>
> I am aware that I can use alt-f2 to do a fine name search, but isn't it
> better to unify all kind of searches into one place?  Could anyone explain
> this behavior, or if I am unaware of any settings/tricks?
>

The reason might be the translator simply translated the search
keywords, but not append the relevant strings to the English ones. I
didn't do much in Natty cycle so I don't know the exact situation, but
this is the only reason I can think of. I'll be back in no more than a
month to work on Oneiric hopefully, and might be able to handle this
problem before its release.

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Regards,
Aron Xu