Whenever I search for a program in Gnome Shell's search panel, some contacts from Pidgin will appear. E.g. when I search for Chromium, by typing chr, Chris Andersen will appear. I don't want this to happen. Is it possible to disable this function?
I was curious about this myself, greping around in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui I found reference to contactDisplay in overview.js. You should be able to comment out the two lines:
const ContactDisplay = imports.ui.contactDisplay;
this.addSearchProvider(new ContactDisplay.ContactSearchProvider());
and that will take care of it. Just tested it, and nothing broke immediately (your results may vary). I wont make any assumptions of your skill set so to comment these lines
Alt+F2 gksu gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/overview.js
find the two lines listed and place // (comment markers) in front of them, save, and Contacts are gone from search results.
The search panel you refer to is called the overview. That may help with future questions.
