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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15. feb. 2012 18:58, supernova wrote:
> Ok, but this is a little bit different problem from the one I 
> discussed above. The problem I reported in this email could be solved 
> by means of a switch in the Dash between "Computer" and "World", or 
> better "Local" and "Global" search. In this way if you look for 
> private data you choose the Local Search, otherwise che Global Search. 
> Maybe difficult to implement, but not so stupid :) Supernova 

That's how it works, except all searches in the dash are global, whereas 
searches in lenses can be local or global. For instance, the music lens 
will search your private music collection and Ubuntu One Music Store by 
default. You could add Spotify and other sources if you wanted to. The 
dash will also search your music, but will not search external sources. 
It is up to the scope to decide whether it should be included in the 
global search or not. If you look at the Applications lens, you'll see 
that you have Sources in the filter. You can choose to only show locally 
installed applications or also show applications in the software center. 
You could easily add another scope to include browser applications out 
on the web. They're just data sources. Again, searching the dash will 
show local apps, but never apps in USC. That's the default lenses. As I 
said before, lens developers can very easily choose to display results 
in the main dash as well as in the dedicated lens. However, if you have 
ten lenses installed, each containing five categories, then if the dash 
would show everything, you'd display 50 categories and at the very least 
500 results. That would be very annoying. So though privacy to me is the 
most important factor, it certainly isn't the only one.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad