signalapp
Refreshing contacts clears search terms
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Bug description
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- [x] I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.
Overall summary
When you search a contact and press "refresh contacts" (e.g. because you just created it in android contacts), it will clear the search terms after refreshing. I notice this bug for at least 6 years now, because I often have to do that (create new contact and write them via Signal). I think it is more "correct"/"better"/user-friendly and should be very easy to just keep/re-apply the search terms after refreshing contacts. Thanks! :)
Steps to reproduce
- create new contact (tested on android)
- go to signal
- start new chat
- type (part of) name
- not found
- press "refresh contacts"
- search term (name) is cleared and has to be re-entered
Expected result
search term (name) should be kept/re-applied after refreshing
Actual result
search term (name) is cleared/lost
Screenshots
No response
Signal version
7.36.2
Operating system
Android 15
Version of Signal on your phone
7.36.2
Link to debug log
No response
Screenshots
No response
Device
various Android devices
Android version
10-15
Signal version
7.36.2
Link to debug log
No response
this is not fixed at all, you just prevented clearing of the search term in textinput, but this does not search again after refreshing contacts and now the UI is broken and shows all contacts even though the filter is still active...this makes things worse with 0 benefit, not better...