https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474951
--- Comment #4 from `{third: "Beedell", first: "Roke"}`{.JSON5}
<rvdois+rvu...@rokejulianlockhart.anonaddy.com> ---
> But it is one click either way, right? Either you click on the search box or
> you click on the search button which focuses the search box? There is
> definitely a difference when it comes to the size of the click target though:
> If the search is already opened, the big search box is much easier to click
> than the search button. On the other hand you as a user can make the search
> button bigger by having its text always shown.
>
> Is this about the size of the click target? Or do you dislike how the view
> resizes itself to also fit the search box and you would rather have the user
> interface to move less? Something else?
Not that I'm aware of. I use Ctrl+F to invoke it (I wasn't actually aware that
a search button existed) so those considerations aren't important to me.
> I don't think this is a good comparison. As I said, this would be one click
> away either way. The only reason I wouldn't want the omnibox to hide is that
> it is also a location bar that shows essential information about where one
> is. This, however, isn't true for the search box after changing view location
> in Dolphin. We don't hide the location bar in Dolphin either for that reason.
That comparison isn't correct, because I somewhat misled you – I don't actually
use the omnibox for searching in Firefox. I use its dedicated search bar,
available via Customization. I mentioned the omnibox in case the respondent
wasn't aware that a separate search bar was available, or was more used to
Chrome.
I can't really see why this would be controversial – the ability to prevent the
search bar hiding could just be implemented as an option, right? I doubt that
I'm the only one with this issue, because the reason I reported this was that
my brother, a user of Windows 11, mentioned that I kept reopening the search
bar every time I searched, which he found absurd. Since then, I've been
noticing it, and it's bothered me.
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