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oefrha • today at 3:06 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I don’t understand why System Settings search is such a dumpster fire. It’s up to a couple thousand (probably overestimating) fixed text labels. Even when it’s not bugging out, half or more of deeper labels simply can’t be found even if you enter the exact string; and by deeper I mean simply not top level categories. Who the hell thought this sorry ass search is okay to ship and keep it that way after this many years? I swear even Windows’ settings search is more capable.


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dilap • today at 3:17 PM

It was fine until a few releases ago, then they rewrote it, and it sucks now. Had to give it that SwiftUI magic.

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amluto • today at 3:31 PM

Maybe Apple ported the Spotlight algorithm over for the System Settings search? Spotlight has, well, unique properties that take extra effort to achieve in a search system.