Bug ID | 1192306 |
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Summary | General YaST control center is hard to find by default in GNOME Shell |
Classification | openSUSE |
Product | openSUSE Tumbleweed |
Version | Current |
Hardware | All |
OS | openSUSE Tumbleweed |
Status | NEW |
Severity | Normal |
Priority | P5 - None |
Component | GNOME |
Assignee | gnome-bugs@suse.de |
Reporter | nekohayo@gmail.com |
QA Contact | qa-bugs@suse.de |
Found By | --- |
Blocker | --- |
YaST modules being split in a bunch of launchable apps is a bit of a problem when combined with GNOME Shell specifically, because when you search for "yast" (expecting to find the main unified YaST control center app), there is a huge amount of search results but GNOME Shell only shows the first line (max 6 items) of results, of which the general YaST app isn't part of by default because of recency sorting and you never used it, so you hit a catch-22 situation. Additionally, GNOME Shell truncates the app names in the search results (it can expand names in the app picker, but not in search results), making it very difficult to find what you're looking for via search, even if it's not the main YaST app. As I couldn't find it, initially the only workaround I found was to activate the "Applications menu" extension, go to Applications > Other > Yast, and then, finally, found the unified Yast application! Only days later did I realize that, it turns out, "YaST" _is_ in the GNOME Shell apps picker... but it's the very last app on the 3rd page. So, combined with the impossibility of finding it via search in a fresh installation, this harms the first-time user experience of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, at least as tested with GNOME 41.