Re: GnomeGoal for 3.8: DesktopFileKeywords

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

I think that's a great point. Being able to type in 'games' or
'internet' or 'office' and seeing a list of applications in that
category would be fantastic.

Emily

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 19:05, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
>> On 4 November 2012 22:22, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
>>> We've had good success with 'adopting' a few GnomeGoals[1] as official
>>> targets for 3.6, and we want to repeat this for 3.8.
>>>
>>> And here are new goals that we want to tackle this cycle:
>>>
>>> DesktopFileKeywords - add a Keywords field to desktop files, to
>>> improve gnome-shell search for applications. This goal doesn't require
>>> any programming skills.
>
> And one more suggestion: should GNOME Shell look at the Categories
> field too? Specifically, typing in "game" doesn't really return
> results now, even though the Games menu heading has several games
> installed. Since most games available are not GNOME games, it may take
> us a while before developers think about adding the Keywords field.
>
> Jeremy
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