Search is broken on empty tab page

[xvitaly]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load Wikipedia ZIM file.
2. Press the New tab button.
3. Try to search anything. No search suggestions will be shown.

System configuration:

• Kiwix version: 2.0.4.
• OS: Fedora 32.

[jatinverma12]

I want to work on this issue. May I?

[kelson42]

@jatinverma12 You are welcome. Please describe here first how your solution would look like.

[jatinverma12]

I am new to this repo. Interested to contribute so I was searching for good first issue and came across this. I will try to look into the code and try to fix it.

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[ploum]

On Ubuntu, search looks completely broken. It worked once, now it doesn’t without chnaging anything. No suggestion, no results.

[kelson42]

@ploum Sounds to be a different problem. I believe this zim file is quite old and we might have a problem of compatibility problem with these older files. Would you be able please to open an other ticket please?

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[ynikitenko]

I have a similar problem with an existing (single) tab. I can use Ctrl-L (thanks to a previous fix) to position the cursor in the search region, but after I type several words and click on some entries through the shown pages, the search sometimes glitches, and I can't type anything to get a new search.
I have to use Kiwix 0.9, which doesn't have these issues (but it uses an outdated ZIM file).

UPD: I mean, I can type something, but it doesn't open the needed page with Enter or a suggestion.
Also, when I fresh open Kiwix, I can type "how", but there are also variants starting with uppercase, and sometimes I have to choose the variant manually, or the uppercase variant is preferred. Also, I have to select the entry with up-down keys, because typing the word is not enough. It's really distracting to read through many word articles like that (I use it for Wiktionary)!

[ynikitenko]

Sadly for Kiwix 2.3.1 (on Arch Linux) this problem still persists.

[sgourdas]

It is not clear to me what is the correct behavior when typing in search, while in an empty tab. In general I feel like the new tab serves no purpose and should be removed, as discussed in a different thread.

Please enlighten me if I have not understood something correctly, but I don't see an issue here.