Greetings and Felicitations O wise and benevolent people of SteamGifts

Every time I do a search on the site I automatically click on the magnifying glass to action the search, and then spend three seconds wondering why nothing is working before remembering and hitting enter, its almost pavlovian (and not the fun dessert type), I mean surely i cannot be the only person that does this, perhaps i need to find a brain training game that modifies my behaviour.
Anyway just wanted to say it.

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If you are using EGST there is an option which does precisely this

EGST options
section 2
General
option 30

If that helps

3 years ago*

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Clicking on the magnifying glass, Am I the only one that does this?

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Yes, you are a very "Special" person, please step away from the keyboard
No, i also make this mistake

Eh, I've made that mistake myself at least once. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3 years ago
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This has been suggested before and I really wonder why it has not been implemented yet...

3 years ago
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i remember there being dicussions about it as well and that pretty much everyone agreed to it.

btw... i just tried it out and the magnifying glass works for me o_O think cg agreed to it as well?
or am i looking at something different than you meant?

3 years ago
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the one on the left, the search field above Browse > all, wishlist, recommended, etc.
or is this an ESGST feature?

3 years ago
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Oh My god, you are a genius, it is an EGST feature, I just enabled it and it works now

3 years ago
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lol youre welcome i guess.
though i still agree that this should be a normal feature of the site.

3 years ago
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After your comment it I looked it up... thanks for the hint!

3 years ago
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well on this page its in the search box under the green button button where it says New discussion,

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I asked the same thing last year. I really don't understand how such a simple and fundamental thing gets ignored.

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It's not something that really impacts or bothers me (most of the time xD). I generally use SG on my computer, so when I search I instinctively click enter. I'd still appreciate seeing a more conventional approach to the search bar though, with something to click.

Why the symbol isn't actually a button/link already, baffles me. There are certainly more positives to having it be a button than not (I can't think of any reasonable negatives), and it's simple to implement.

Alternatively, they should just remove the symbol to save on the confusion.

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that and dark mode

3 years ago
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Dark mode for sure!

3 years ago
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did you know the guy who runs this site is afraid of the dark..he wont make a dark mode because he is afraid to turn out the lights,

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Closed 1 year ago by nigelt74.