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advice1010

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Registered: 2023-02-19

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Whisker Menu - What determines search field results

XFCE 4.18
Whisker Menu 2.8.0

I am having trouble understanding what is determining results generated Whisker Menu search field.  Some keyword search results generate many results even though not matching keywords typing in field. I am using it in combination with MenuLibre. I also tried adding “keywords” in MenuLibre “Advanced” tabs to get more specific search results.

For example if you just randomly type “aa” or “cc” you get a ton of results even though nothing has double letters.

Keyword: “aa”
Application Finder
ApplicAtion finder

Archive Manager
Archive mAnager

Keyword: "apple”
Application Finder
APPLlication findEr

So it appears to be ignoring search characters in between names, as long as it has those letters from search field.
Is there a way to turn this off and just generate results based on matching the combination of letters in exact order?
Might have to mention something about this, seems strange.

Thank You

advice1010

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 101

Re: Whisker Menu - What determines search field results

Just in case anyone was interested in this in the future.
I mentioned this to the developer and unfortunately this is intentional and no plans to add a setting for this.

"This is intentional, so that you can search for things like "ff" and get "Firefox" or "fw" and get "FocusWriter". I use it heavily myself. There is no option to turn it off, and I am leery of adding any more options since there are far too many as it is!"

Just tried "ff" and I get a ton of LibreOffice applications at the top and literally 60 application results.\
Anyways, seems strange that cannot type in a keyword and just get keyword results, but not up to me.

If anyone interested in this / interested in backing my request, it can be found here
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x … issues/137

Thank You

Last edited by advice1010 (2024-06-30 22:46:08)