GNOME Fuzzy Search

Append fuzzy search results to Gnome Search.

How It Works

The plugin injects it's own callback to getResultSet method in each registrated provider which appends new search results. This means that it does not change default result set, just adds new results to existing ones.

The search query is interpreted as there is an any character between each query character. For example query goocrm searches *g*o*o*c*r*m* (where * is any character) in application names (ignoring case sensitivity), so Google Chrome is matched (Google Chrome).

Fuzzy Search Disabled

Fuzzy Search Enabled

Settings

This project is still work in progress, so for now you can only add fuzzy search results to AppSearchProvider.

Installation

• install using GNOME Shell extension website
• build and install from source
  • download source from GitHub (clone repository or download zip)
  • from gnome-fuzzy-search directory execute make install
• bash one-liner
  • wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fffilo/gnome-fuzzy-search/master/install.sh -O - | bash