On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:29 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

it would be useful if - in the package listing window - using the search text box would not only search the names of the packages (as it seems to be doing), but also in the descriptive strings.

Indeed. There was code in the gui program that was designed to do just
that, but it wasn't actually working due to a trivial bug. That's now
fixed in git.