Bug 401805

Summary:	Search for exact package name works only in newly available search field
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Alexander Mentyu <notuxius>
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.14.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alexander Mentyu 2018-12-05 22:45:38 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Discover.
2. Select 'Applications' page.
3. Search for exact package name - for example 'akonadi-backend-sqlite-dbgsym' (no search results).
4. Select 'Back'.
5. Search for 'akonadi-backend-sqlite-dbgsym' package in newly available search field.

OBSERVED RESULT
Search shows result only in this field.

EXPECTED RESULT
Search shows results in 'Applications' page search field or there is always available top left global search field mentioned in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401672

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Developer Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.53.0
Qt Version: 5.11.2
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-42-generic

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-12-08 04:55:01 UTC

Searching for packages shouldn't return any results, since Discover only displays things that have AppStream information. What are you trying to accomplish here?

Comment 2 Alexander Mentyu 2018-12-08 14:47:28 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Searching for packages shouldn't return any results, since Discover only
> displays things that have AppStream information. What are you trying to
> accomplish here?

User may be told on a forum to install exact package that will solve his or her problem - name of package can be copy and pasted into Discover for installation, install dbgsym packages via Discover, show dependencies of particular package

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-12-08 14:49:34 UTC

I personally would like Discover to show packages as well, like Linux Mint's tool does.

However this is a maintainer decision, not mine, and Aleix doesn't want Discover to show individual packages in the search lists.