Some lenses not working in 12.04

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Published on 2012-12-08T22:58:33Z Indexed on 2012/12/08 23:36 UTC
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I have just started experimenting with extra lens in Unity. I installed some that I found listed in an AskUbuntu question. Some of them don't seem to work.

The "Cooking" lens is supposed to show recipes, but I just get a blank result - nothing is found.

I have another lens which I assume is the youtube lens I installed, that sits and searches forever when I switch to it, and even type a search into it.

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