search field miss focus on startup

[medeoTL]

When i start beatbox, what i want to do is usually quickly select some song/album/artist and start playing the song.
The fatest way i've to do so is to use the search box.
So, i think it could be nice if it can have the focus on the first start, this way i just have to write my search query and press Enter in order to listen my songs.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'd like to add to this and say that no matter what widget has focus in BeatBox, typing text should re-focus to the search bar (like how python dexter was)

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Hmmm, the search field doesn't need to be focused in order to do a search. In BeatBox, you just need start typing and it gets focus automatically. Maybe this feature is not as discoverable as we would like it to be.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I dunno, I can confirm that opening the app and starting typing doesn't search. This is because there is no selection in the view, it seems the toolbar has focus.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Oops. I bet you tried to do that from the album view. And it hasn't been implemented for that view yet.

However, non-discoverable features are equivalent to missing features. And we know that since the reporter didn't know about it.

[medeoTL (fasiellon)]

@victored: pls consider that opening the app and starting typing doesn't search, and that's not related to the view selected. As you say, album view doesn't have this feature yet, the other views have the feature. But they don't have it when you start the app. They have it only after you click on a song, then as soon as you type search field get the focus and all work properly. But if you just start app and type you'll don't get any response from app, never, even if the "other than album view" is selected.

Hope to be clear, english is not my mother language.
Anyway, thanks you all for your attention, elementary project is great!

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

Victor, you should be able to easily fix this by moving the key pressed signal to the entire window rather than just the list. This will grab any key press when the beatbox window is focused (i believe).

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Ok, I will do that :)

Not sure if this bug can be marked as fixed after that though.