Disabling search places in "Other" section removes them from list and they have to be added again to reactivate them

Bug #1575941 reported by Wise Melon
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Ubuntu GNOME
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gnome-control-center
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have found that in the gnome-control-center if I want to make it so that a folder does not come up in search and I go to the "Search" section if I click on the options menu which launches up "Search Locations", click the "+" button, select the folder and then press the slider to turn it "Off" it disappears from the list, in fact anything in the "Other" section does, even "Desktop" which is there by default, though adding an item back to the list where its status is "On" makes search results be displayed for it again. I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

I think it would be better if there was a different system where you have the folders in "Places" where they are now, but then instead of having the "Other" section (and "Desktop" should be in "Places" and not "Other") there should just be a blacklist to which you can add folders if you want (obviously adding a folder which is one of those in the "Places" list will simply disable it in "Places").

Tags: wily xenial
description: updated
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Invalid
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Hi Nikita,
  CAn you update buglinks when upstream mark your reports as duplicates? Launchpad doesnt follow those automatically.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Medium → Unknown
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life in April 2019.

https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-is-here/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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