SUMMARY Upon working in terminal, one often needs to press Escape to interact with terminal applications. Until recently that didn't conflict with Search-Box because to dismiss the later it needs to get focused. But now the box is always dismissed upon pressing Escape. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Press Ctrl+Shif+f for the box to appear 2. Click with mouse the terminal to unfocus the box 3. Press Escape OBSERVED RESULT The search-box disappears EXPECTED RESULT Nothing happens. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: i3wm is used, not Plasma KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Qt Version: 5.12.0 Konsole Version: 18.12.1
I believe this is intentional. Before, we had it such that you needed to focus the search field to have the escape key close the search panel, and we got a lot of negative feedback about that. Just hit ctrl+shift+f to re-open the search bar when you need it. It'll even remember your last search term. :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Just hit ctrl+shift+f to re-open the search bar when you need it. It'll even > remember your last search term. :) The problem is that one can't just hit the hotkey, and continue working. Because now you need to find the mouse, click the terminal to unfocus the box, and only then you can continue working. > I believe this is intentional. Before, we had it such that you needed to > focus the search field to have the escape key close the search panel, and we > got a lot of negative feedback about that. I see the other workflow, but if you compare them, it clearly became worse: Working around annoyance (i.e. having highlight all the time) in workflow you mentioned: 1. Hit the ctrl+shift+f to focus search box 2. Press escape to dismiss 3. Continue typing Working around annoyance (i.e. not having highlight all the time) in workflow that changes broke: 1. Hit the ctrl+shift+f to focus search box 2. Find the mouse on the table, and press terminal to unfocus the search-box 3. Move hands back to keyboard 4. Continue typing Can perhaps this change be made optional? Preferably even opt-in, because I imagine the workflow that changes broke must be pretty popular. One example of the workflow is when you use a terminal tab mostly for building, and it's hard without manual highlight to understand where C++ code has a problem breaking the build¹. Another one is when you research some problem, you do a lot of actions in terminal such as checking out git revisions, opening logs in vim, grepping stuff, etc, and having highlight for some keywords speeds up this process. The other workflow… Well, I might have had a few times when I didn't need search box, and I wanted to dismiss it, but doing that so much quicker, and so much less annoyance comparing to what it is now, it's just 2 shortcus presses instead of 1. 1: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89326
Given above comment, can I reopen the issue?
I'm not sure I understand. There's no need to use the mouse at all. Am I understanding that you want the search bar to be open all the time? Sorry if I'm being thick here. :)