Reset room list on enter in room filter field

[jo-so]

Description

Hitting enter in the filter field for rooms opens the first found room, but doesn't reset the room list. When pressing down in the filter field to select the first room and press enter, thereafter, the room list gets reset. It would be handy, if this happens from a room filter, too.

Steps to reproduce

1. click into the field on the left above all rooms which contains Filter room names
2. enter a texts that narrows the rooms to a few ones
3. hit enter
4. the room of the first match opens, but the room list stays narrowed down

Version information

• Platform: Firefox nightly 65.0a1
• OS: Debian Linux
• URL: private server with riot-web: 0.17.1

[lampholder]

Hmm, I'm not sure what the right behaviour for this is - I quite like that the list stays filtered (until I forget that it's filtered and wonder why I can't find a particular room).

I think the UX of this requires some thought, certainly, but I'm not sure that the change described is necessarily ideal in all cases.

[dannycolin]

Hmm, I'm not sure what the right behaviour for this is - I quite like that the list stays filtered (until I forget that it's filtered and wonder why I can't find a particular room).

I think the behavior where pressing enter reset the filter makes sense. It would work mostly like the urlbar of a browser when you search for something in it and the dropdown is closed after you hit enter.

And alternative could be to use ctrl + k as a toggle. It would go like this:

1. Press ctrl + k
2. Enter the filter input
3. Type something and it filters the room list
4. Press Enter to go to the selected room OR press ctrl +k to quit the filter mode and get back to the unflitered room list.