Menu With Search should prioritize results that start with the query

[Botspot]

First off, cheers to the person who decided to add a application menu search to lxpanel! This has saved me a lot of time over the past few months.

This "issue" is simply a suggestion for how the lxpanel menu search could be made more intuitive. More exact results should be displayed first, and one easy way to quantify that is to move to the top any results that start with the search query.

Example screenshot showing that the topmost result is obviously inferior to another result item below it.

Pi-Apps has an app-searching function, and it almost always shows the intended result first, due to this searching method.
Some shell script from the Pi-Apps app_search function is included below, in case it helps:

#search app names - first prioritize results starting with query, then show results containing query, then show other pre-existing results.
results="$(grep -i "^$query" <<<"$app_list" | sort)
$(grep -i "$query" <<<"$app_list" | sort)
$results"

#remove duplicate entries
echo "$results" | awk '!seen[$0]++'

[spl237]

Good idea - if I get some time, I'll look into doing it.

[Botspot]

Any updates on this?

[spl237]

When I said I would look into it, I didn't mean "in the next two weeks"... ;)

I have a very long to-do list; I have added this to it, but I'm afraid it's not a priority compared to a lot of other stuff that is more urgent. I will look at it - I cannot at this stage promise when.

[Botspot]

Any chance this could be added in time for PiOS Bookworm?

[spl237]

The comment above still applies...