Nautilus does not focus search bar upon typing if search bar already is visible
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
(Nautilus 3.26.3 on Ubuntu 18.04, but bug has been present as long as the new search box has existed to my knowledge)
If you start typing in nautilus, so long as no text field anywhere is focused, the search box will appear and get focus, so you end up typing into it. However, if the search box is already visible but does not have focus (for example, by tapping ctrl-f and then clicking outside the search box), then typing does not re-focus the search box.
This is jarring since you can be looking at a normal view of a folder (not at search results), and out of habit expect that you can start typing to search. Even if you tap ctrl-f, this makes an empty search box *vanish*, so you have to tap ctrl-f *twice* to get it focused (or click on it of course)
Solutions include:
* Make an empty search box always vanish upon losing focus
* Make an empty search box, if still visible, gain focus again if the user starts typing.
The first solution is probably cleanest since there is no use case I can think of for leaving an empty search box visible if the user is not about to type into it.
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote | #3 |
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