Tdesktop: Keyboard shortcut to navigate to chat list search

Created on 8 Jan 2019  路  4Comments  路  Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Steps to reproduce

  1. Intend to go to search bar above chat list
  2. Realize there isn't a convenient shortcut for this and you have to move your mouse manually

Expected behaviour

I would expect a shortcut for this action, so I can navigate between chats easily (when there is too many to use Alt+arrows conveniently)

Actual behaviour

I need to manually click in search bar in order to search for a chat

Configuration

Operating system: Windows 10 1809

Version of Telegram Desktop: 1.5.5 beta

Used theme:


There is load of convenient shortcut keys in Telegram Desktop: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts
There is one regarding search, which is Ctrl+F, but there's no key to enter search bar in chat list!
It's something similiar to pressing Ctrl+L in a browser window, but Ctrl+L (or Alt+D?) in Telegram locks it.
I'd appreciate if this kind of shortcut could be introduced too, it's the only one I'm missing, and it would speed things up (and the productivity!)

Most helpful comment

@p0358 Just press Escape.

All 4 comments

@p0358 Just press Escape.

Oh, that does indeed know, didn't know about it

Just now I noticed it says "Exit selected chat and search Telegram" on the wiki, so I'm going to close this issue for now

Why are the keybindings so inconsistent across operating systems. On Mac the keyboard shortcut is CMD+K to do this but this doesn't exist on the linux version?

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