GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 703711
Search-as-you-type box hides itself when application focus lost
Last modified: 2020-11-24 09:59:50 UTC
Hello, Currently the find window hides itself when gedit loses focus. This behaviour is undesirable in the use case where you are copying and pasting from one application into gedit's find window. The find window could stay enabled when gedit loses focus, or a delay time could be introduced before focus is lost (say 10s?). It took me a while to realise what was going on.
*** Bug 706096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
When you talk about the "find window", I think it is the incremental search (Ctrl+F), not the search and replace (Ctrl+H). The incremental search is hidden when it loses focus, so it is not a bug. What you want is to hide the incremental search only if it loses the focus, but the focus is still in the gedit window. When the whole gedit window loses focus, the incremental search should not be hidden. Right? For me it isn't really important (and indeed the severity of this bug report is "minor"). You can anyway show the incremental search easily.
Hi, yes my comment was for the "incremental search" window, and your summary of my comment is correct. I disagree about the usability case (it took me half a dozen goes to twig that it was auto-hiding, and not something I was doing.), though I am not the developer ;)
To add to this, when the "show location of pointer" accessibility tweak is enabled, it becomes impossible to copy and paste into the incremental search dialog, because pressing Ctrl initiates the mouse indicator, which in turn causes the loss of focus and so hides the incremental search dialog. I'm not sure why I'd want the find dialog to vanish without my directly asking it to? Under what circumstances is it inconvenient to have the incremental search box stay open (that's a genuine question, it may be extremely convenient to have it vanish, I'm sure there's reasons I can't think of now)?
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