linuxmint/Cinnamon — pull request #848 by kparrish (2012-06-30 14:08:49+00:00)
Title: Menu search, change sorting to match application name first

This changes the sorting of the menu search function to search the apps by name-word first, next name-fragment, then description/id. This makes it easier to search the app by name and gives a lesser priority secondary information. However, it still returns the full list of apps that would have been originally found.

e.g.
Search: "la"
Keyboard "La"yout name-word
"La"nguage support name-word
Calcu"la"tor name-fragment
Disp"la"ys name-fragment
...
APTon CD description/id
...

I think this makes sense because if you know the name of your app you can get to it quickly, yet it still displays the other apps based on other information.