It's not one search field losing its query, but rather two separate
search fields. In this respect, it behaves just the same as the
pathbutton next to it: for example, if you navigate to "Get Software" >
"Games", then to "Installed Software", you won't end up in "Installed
Software" > "Games".

I think having independent search fields (and pathbuttons) across
sections is appropriate, because otherwise if you did a search (or
navigated to a department/subsection) in the top-level "Get Software"
and then navigated to a PPA or a CD (coming soon in 2.0) or to a saved
list (coming in 3.0 or later), *most of the time* that PPA/CD/list would
appear to contain zero items when actually it contained more.

If we did persist searches across sections, I think we'd need to move
the search field upwards somehow to clarify that it was independent from
the selection in the navigation pane.

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Search field loses query, should persist.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446253
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