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Comment 4 for bug 1082252

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

mpt, thanks for replying.

The last time we talked about search field consistency was bug 828567 which I submitted to GNOME as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/659284 which got merged with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/652809 which is how we got GtkSearchEntry. I guess you'll want to try to work with Gtk/GNOME to extend GtkSearchEntry before using it in Software Center or Unity?

I'm not so sure we need a distinction between live search and submitted search. I think local searches with GNOME3 are usually live searches (Nautilus for instance has switched to live search). Unity's "more suggestions" feature is live search.

It's just those web browsers and LibreOffice which don't use live search (although the web browsers do use live search for the find in page [Ctrl+F] feature). Although it probably doesn't mean much to a user who doesn't care about the technical details, those apps all use GTK2 so it makes sense that they are currently inconsistent with how GNOME3 apps work.