[konsole] [Bug 404941] [Regression] Konsole closes search-box when it's unfocused upon pressing Esc

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404941

--- Comment #2 from Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel at yandex.ru> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Just hit ctrl+shift+f to re-open the search bar when you need it. It'll even
> remember your last search term. :)

The problem is that one can't just hit the hotkey, and continue working.
Because now you need to find the mouse, click the terminal to unfocus the box,
and only then you can continue working.

> I believe this is intentional. Before, we had it such that you needed to
> focus the search field to have the escape key close the search panel, and we
> got a lot of negative feedback about that.

I see the other workflow, but if you compare them, it clearly became worse:

Working around annoyance (i.e. having highlight all the time) in workflow you
mentioned:
    1. Hit the ctrl+shift+f to focus search box
    2. Press escape to dismiss
    3. Continue typing

Working around annoyance (i.e. not having highlight all the time) in workflow
that changes broke:
    1. Hit the ctrl+shift+f to focus search box
    2. Find the mouse on the table, and press terminal to unfocus the
search-box
    3. Move hands back to keyboard
    4. Continue typing

Can perhaps this change be made optional? Preferably even opt-in, because I
imagine the workflow that changes broke must be pretty popular. One example of
the workflow is when you use a terminal tab mostly for building, and it's hard
without manual highlight to understand where C++ code has a problem breaking
the build¹. Another one is when you research some problem, you do a lot of
actions in terminal such as checking out git revisions, opening logs in vim,
grepping stuff, etc, and having highlight for some keywords speeds up this
process.

The other workflow… Well, I might have had a few times when I didn't need
search box, and I wanted to dismiss it, but doing that so much quicker, and so
much less annoyance comparing to what it is now, it's just 2 shortcus presses
instead of 1.

1: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89326

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