When searchbar's searchentry has an existing query but is deselected, Ctrl+F should refocus and select-all instead of clearing the search
Ctrl+F
- Type something
- Click somewhere in the document; the search query (and its results highlights) remains active. This is correct.
-
Ctrl+F
again to refocus the searchentry
Result: search entry contents get cleared, search query gets lost/reset.
This should not be done because:
- You are throwing away user data that the user has spent time constructing (the search query)
- The user was expecting to be able to replace or edit the search query, just like in other apps (web browsers, file managers, etc.; barring bugs like #86 (closed))
- You are throwing away the significant amount of CPU work that was done to search through the document, and are forcing the search to happen from scratch again, so it's a performance issue.
This is the same UX & performance design philosophy as GNOME/nautilus#2819 (closed)