Comment 57 for bug 663776

Thanks Aron.

If you had any chance to examine this piece of code. I would strongly
suggest to alter dash search algorithm to always fallback to the executable
file name, rather than relying on translators to append original strings
etc.

2011/5/25 Aron Xu <email address hidden>

> 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.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Aron Xu
>