Search field in "Open file" dialog loses focus after every character typed

[Arthur Rodrigues]

When we click in the magnifier icon next to the "Open" button in a (system provided) "Open File" dialog to search for some file by name, after each character typed, if there are any search results, the search field loses focus to the list view of the results.

The correct behavior would be to maintain focus until we stopped typing or even manually changed focus.

I've added a screencast of the problem as an attachment.

PS: I have no idea if this dialog is provided by nautilus, so I'm not marking it here. Also, I tried using xprop to get the correct package, but it only reports the application using it, not the one providing.

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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04

[Arthur Rodrigues (araruna)]

In case it really is nautilus:

$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Instalado: 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidato: 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds maybe like bug 1767030?

[Arthur Rodrigues (araruna)]

No, and neither is the behavior equivalent.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is with the gtk fileselector and not the filemanager, it's already reported/known as bug #1592177