Installer Updated – Now Lets You Search for Apps
Tick. Cross off one wish list item for Installer improvements. It was updated this afternoon – and you can now search for applications!
There’s a search bar (as seen in the screencap above) for each application category. It is a wee bit awkward though in that you have to have selected a category to see the search bar – would be even nicer if it was implemented at top level, before you even choose a category.
Also, it seems to search only for items you have not already installed, instead of returning all applications that exist in all the repos – or at least my initial results look this way. As in, if I search for moleskine, I do not get the program itself or several of the themes for it in the results (because I have them installed) – I only see a couple of new themes for it that I’ve not yet added. This seems less than ideal to me. I think sometimes I’d like to search for an app and see its location just to tell a friend where to find it, for example, and would prefer to see the results include even things I have already installed.
Those are pretty small gripes though – overall I’m quite glad to see the search functionality added.
You should get prompted to run the update next time you launch Installer …
Now all they need is a little alphabetical list done the side that you can use to navigate, just like in contacts.
I agree – I’d like that feature as well …
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If you go to Install section the first folder is “All Packages”. Enter it and you can then search ALL non-installed packages, and returned results will have the containing folder. No need to go BY SPECIFIC folder to search for apps.