Re: Idea: show potential apps in the search

[Lucas David-Roesler <roesler lucas gmail com>]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:07 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote:
> Thought it would be interesting if the search in the overview page
> could also search the yum repository. �(maybe keep a background cache
> so the search doesn't slow down)

See�https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612628�for reference :-)
Florian

Ubuntu's Unity does this (at least the last time I played with it, I believe). I have tried it and I absolutely hate it. I may just be too picky.�

However, I understand the usefulness of this in certain situations. Perhaps instead of always searching uninstalled apps, if there are no matching programs currently installed, then offer a list of matching uninstalled programs. It might also be good to give some sort of visual hint that the program is not installed yet.

~Lucas David-Roesler