Bug ID 1192306
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.


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