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The high level goal is to separate the concern of searching for things with display of those things; for example in newer mockups, applications are displayed exactly the same as they look in the AppWell. Another goal was optimizing for speed; for example, application search was pushed mostly down into C, and we avoid lowercasing and normalizing every item over and over. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603523
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