CTRL+F turns search off

[Pierre-Antoine Champin]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10
  Candidate: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 3.10.3-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My problem is that CTRL+F acts as a switch for search mode: it turns it on (when it is off) and off (when it is already on). While this could make sense, I find it quite counter intuitive:

* I'm reading a PDF
* I want to search "foo": I type CTRL+F and "foo", it works
* I find the occurence of "foo" I'm interested in
* I continue reading, *without leaving the search mode*
* at some point, I want to search for "bar", so
* I type CTRL+F and "bar"... but CTRL+F just turns off the search mode, and "bar" is ignored

This is quite frustrating. As the search mode can be left with ESC, I suggest to change the behaviour of CTRL+F to setting the focus to the search box, so that CTRL+F *always* results in searching

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Francisco Vila (francisco-vila)]

In addition to that, old behavior of Ctrl+F used to be to select all text content in search box, so that what you type right after Ctrl+F replaces a previous search. I think this is what is expected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David R. Miller (zplb)]

Currently, to search, you either have to press ctrl-F once then enter the search term, or you must press ctrl-F twice then enter the search term. If you use the wrong procedure, search doesn't work. That's unusual, error-prone, and could be easily fixed.