Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Searches For "AND" vs "&"

[Stuart Langridge <stuart langridge canonical com>]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 18:52 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > Solution:
> > What are some opinions on adding a conditional to interpret search
> > input containing the "and" term as both "and" as well as "&" and vice
> > versa? Basically, just make these two strings search interchangeably.
> > There may be other examples similar to this that could also be fixed.
> 
> Rather than trying to work around ambiguities like this, I think it
> might be more useful to add a list of stop words that are disregarded
> for searching. I'm not sure when it would ever be useful to search for
> 'and' or 'the' or the like.

Agreed, for two reasons. The first is that it makes it much easier to
throw an artist name from some other part of Rhythmbox into the search
widget and have it work (we do this from the Ubuntu One music store, for
example, although there we know we'll get it right). The second is that
such lists of stopwords already exist, so they should be easy to
incorporate :-)

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