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[manny <1196051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)

Hi, I don't think you understood correctly.

This not about "suggestions" included in the home lens all the time.

The topic at hand is "Search results". They are not smart because
they're not returning anything useful to the user when you type in
Steam, Gimp, chromium, etc.

Smart scopes right now is only returning A LOT of irrelevant stuff with
these searches, so, confusing more the user / consumer.

This totally goes against the spec:


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartScopes1304Spec

"Rationale
The driving factors behind the changes are the continual improvement of the Dash as a place for surfacing useful content, whether it’s local or remote, and a desire to take advantage of the amazing work done by contributors in building up a large amount of Scopes for the Dash.

The features break down as:

Ability for the Home Master Scope to show a mixture of ranked results from the:
default scopes
some of the installed scopes
remote scopes (scopes run on the server)
The Dash gathering and posting metrics to the Smart Scopes Service, so we can produce better results for queries.
The Smart Scopes Service being able to give ranked list of Scopes to present to the user.
The goal of the 100 Scopes project and of Ubuntu in general is to provide lots and lots of scopes, and there should be lots and lots more in the future for every data source that anyone might want. These scopes should all be in Ubuntu and ready to surface appropriate content in the Dash. The Ubuntu experience would be compromised if all those scopes were running all the time, though; the goal of the Smart Scopes project is to intelligently decide, for a given query, which scopes are likely to be most relevant to that query so that those scopes can be chosen to be started and return results. Users can of course explicitly choose scopes that they want used in the query to override the suggestions from the Smart Scopes service."

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196051

Title:
  smart-scopes: Software center results do not show up in the home-scope

Status in Unity Home Scope:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  No useful (or smart) search results returned for apps not currently
  installed, i.e. Steam, Gimp, etc. to the Home-Scope. However, the
  apps-scope already has this implemented.

  Fix needed: Add useful software center results also to the home-scope
  as per the goal to make the dash searches smart.

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  original report:
  clean install of saucy, searched for chromium, banshee, etc. on either of these a Info icon for wikipedia is shown or chromium  bookmarks was shown but not the application itself.

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