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[David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/06/2013 14:29, Alan Bell wrote:
> Trying out Saucy today I noticed the weather results in the dash. Hey 
> awesome, it is going to be 32 degrees tomorrow! Um no, it is going to 
> be 32 degrees in Termoli, Italy. That is because I was in progress of 
> launching the terminal application when I noticed it. I tried again 
> searching for "weather" which told me that it is going to be quite 
> nice in Weatherford, USA. Finally I searched for London to find the 
> cold and miserable result I was looking for.
>
> So this is kind of a cool feature, but it is *never* going to 
> accidentally and serendipitously show me the weather in somewhere I 
> care about. I have to explicitly type in the name of somewhere nearish 
> me that probably has a weather forecast - doing what makes sense to me 
> and just typing weather does not show me weather where I am.
Regarding this specific scope, there are some changes coming that will 
allow to type "weather:" or to enable it via its filter, without a 
query, and get local weather. You can already try this kind of results 
surfacing if you enable Notes, Boxes and News category filters (the same 
way Applications and Files & Folders bring recent files and apps).

David

> I know the smart scopes plan is supposed to improve this kind of 
> thing, but in general I think lenses should be less eager to show 
> results on the dash home page that just can't be relevant to any 
> random thing I type (which is rarely anything outside the array 
> ["term", "firef", "chro", "ecli"])
>
> Alan