Public bug reported:
(Nautilus 3.26.3 on Ubuntu 18.04, but bug has been present as long as
the new search box has existed to my knowledge)
If you start typing in nautilus, so long as no text field anywhere is
focused, the search box will appear and get focus, so you end up typing
into it. However, if the search box is already visible but does not have
focus (for example, by tapping ctrl-f and then clicking outside the
search box), then typing does not re-focus the search box.
This is jarring since you can be looking at a normal view of a folder
(not at search results), and out of habit expect that you can start
typing to search. Even if you tap ctrl-f, this makes an empty search box
*vanish*, so you have to tap ctrl-f *twice* to get it focused (or click
on it of course)
Solutions include:
* Make an empty search box always vanish upon losing focus
* Make an empty search box, if still visible, gain focus again if the user
starts typing.
The first solution is probably cleanest since there is no use case I can
think of for leaving an empty search box visible if the user is not
about to type into it.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nautilus does not focus search bar upon typing if search bar already
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