Files stops accepting input when clicking outside search completion box

[Danielle Foré]

1. start a search
2. click outside the search completion box
3. See that the app is not frozen, however it will no longer accept keyboard or mouse input

[Sooty (yusufzi)]

Confirmed, but affects me a little differently;

1. Start a search
2. Press a non-character key (such as print screen button)
3. See that the app is not frozen, however it will no longer accept keyboard or mouse input, not will it allow clicking files and folders or close pantheon-files window. Force quit required.

Clicking outside the search field does not cause me problems.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

I cannot confirm following the steps above (rev 1687) , but the app appears not to accept keyboard input when the following steps are performed:

1) Ctrl-F to enter searchmode - do not press any keys
2) Move the mouse pointer into the sidebar - pathbar switches to editmode and retains keyboard focus
3) Move the pointer out off and into the sidebar again - pathbar switches to breadcrumb mode, sidebar grabs keyboard focus

The sidebar keeps the keyboard focus until the view is clicked on again. While the sidebar has focus, depending on which keys are pressed it can appear that nothing is happening. However, clicking on the view always returns things to normal for me.

In fact you can get in the same state without involving the pathbar simply by putting the mouse pointer in the sidebar and repeatly pressing the first letter of one of the bookmarks (e.g. d).

I'll confirm this as a bug in the keyboard focus handling of sidebar and pathbar as well. We should stop pathbar losing focus so easily when in search mode.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

This bug appears to have been fixed in the current trunk (r2164).