On vie, 2011-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > True, if you really need to get at the individual items and treat > them as distinct tokens. But do you really need to do that when > you're doing a text search? If I type "mouse", I'd expect it to > match any of these: > > * Mouse;Touchpad;Trackpoint;Keyboard; > * Mouse, Touchpad, and Trackpoint;Keyboard; > * Mouse and Touchpad;Trackpoint;Keyboard; > * Mouse,Touchpad,Trackpoint,Keyboard > > That they're split into a list isn't really interesting. If I'm > doing a text search, all I care is that "mouse" is somewhere in > there.
I mostly agree. However, in GNOME Shell we prefer prefix matches over substring matches, so when typing "touchpad", results for the first option get a better rating than results for the other options. Regards, Florian _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
