Reproduced in unity-2d 5.8.0-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Pangolin. Reopening. ** Description changed:
unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Natty unity 3.6.8-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu Natty + unity-2d 5.8.0-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Pangolin 0. Be a 14-year-old girl, or a schoolteacher preparing to show a film to your class, or a businessperson preparing to give a presentation. 1. Click the "Applications" button. 2. Type "movie" to launch Movie Player. What happens: * Six applications appear, one of which is "PornView". * There is no apparent way of preventing "PornView" from appearing as a result, though it's not even installed. What should happen: * Only "Movie Player" and maybe "PiTiVi" appear. This problem cannot be solved merely by renaming or blacklisting one particular application. For example, a Saudi Ubuntu user might be similarly annoyed that searching for "guide" returns "Xiphos Bible Guide" as a result, when that's not installed either. We can't realistically expect the entire Ubuntu software library to be offense-free: as more independent applications are published, some (especially games) will be targeted at mature audiences and/or be non- worksafe, and that's fine. (We can introduce a maturity rating system inside Ubuntu Software Center for those.) But people should be able to expect that the launcher in Ubuntu's shell, of all things, *will* be offense-free. - Both this bug and bug 733669 (about the search results being confusing) - can be fixed by restricting application search results only to those + Possible solutions: + + * Simplest would be to restrict application search results only to those applications that are actually installed. + + * Introduce a maturity ratings system + <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-software- + maturity-ratings>, apply it to every package in the Ubuntu archive that + needs it, then set a reasonable default for Dash searches (analogous to + Google's "SafeSearch Moderate"). This might involve adding a setting for + how much filtering the Dash should do. + + * Ad-hoc and unconfigurable blacklisting (as proposed in duplicate bug + 883800). This might result in ongoing disagreements about whether + particular applications should be blacklisted. ** Changed in: unity-lens-applications Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739469 Title: Dash search unavoidably returns offensive results To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/739469/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
