[address book] search field without clicking on the bouton

[Thomas Russier]

When I am in my contact app, and I need to search someone, I need to click on the icon "serach" first. Why is that? I think it would be better if the field was already accessible. When you search a contact from the phone app, it is anoying to have to clik on another button.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What would suggest? Showing the onscreen keyboard by default? That would take screen space and make the application looks less good though...

[Thomas Russier (thomasrussier)]

Well, I think it would not be god if it was always the case, you're right. But I have a feeling that when you are in the phone app, and you click t search for a contact, it could be good to be already in the research bar with the keyboard showed, because I guess you are always gonna use this research in this case (not sure I am clear in what I mean...)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Tapping the Search button both reveals *and* focuses the search field. So if you are starting a search from scratch, the number of clicks/taps needed is exactly the same for the button as it would be for an always-visible field: one.

An always-visible search field would, though, be better for:
* reassuring you that the current view is the full list, not search results;
* doing other things in the header while using a search (bug 1606243).