[Ayatana-dev] Apps searching and X-GNOME-Keywords

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Seems we have a steady flow of bugs coming in from people that can't 
find their apps despite typing sensible strings into the search box. Fx. 
"internet" does not find Firefox and "music" does not find Banshee.

Example bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-applications/+bug/833610
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/810412
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609702

There are all sorts of fancy and "correct" ways we can solve this, but 
an efficient and pragmatic way, that is still very useful involves 
simply making sure that we have a truckload of good X-GNOME-Keywords 
fields in all .desktop files.

As it stands this metadata is *very* scarce. Fortunately it's very easy 
to fix - but just big scope wise. How about we go on a promo tour to 
help breed some movement across the apps community?

(it should also be quite possible to pull a good deal of the load our 
selves)

Cheers,
Mikkel