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Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops
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Clicking on a search suggestion does not do anything #207

Closed nickreserved closed 5 years ago

nickreserved commented 5 years ago

Version: 2.0-beta5-18-gc42d2d0 OS: Windows 7 x64 ZIM: wikipedia_en_all_novid_2018-10.zim

Search is not working at all. When I type something, like "Nuclear Fusion", suggested articles appear correctly but even when I press ENTER or I select suggested article from drop down list, nothing happens. It is so rediculus that I believe it is my PC problem. But what problem can have my PC to disturb search of Kiwix?

I don't know how must work, but when I go to "Local Files", even when I just ...->File->Open File->Above_ZIM, it is empty.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@nickreserved If you use the mouse to click on the drop down list item you have chosen, does it works better?

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

I strongly suspect that this is a duplicate of #80. This should be fixed, would be nice to check again with a nighly https://download.kiwix.org/nightly/ or with the to be released soon RC1.

nickreserved commented 5 years ago

Works fine on nightly Firefox plugin.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@nickreserved I'm still not sure to fully understand how to reproduce the problem as I miss a clear step-by-step procedure. You write for example "I select suggested article from drop down list", but I don't know if this is with the keyboard or with the mouse. You say also "nothing happens", but does that mean for example that the list of suggestions does not disappear? As a matter of fact, I can not reproduce the problem for now. The Firefox plugin works totally differently.

metal450 commented 5 years ago

I also can't get search to work at all. Like the OP says: I type & see results, but hitting enter (and also clicking on the items) does nothing. Basically search is unusable.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@metal450 Are you sure your are using the beta5? What happen exactly after clicking on (do you get a blanck page, keep the already loaded page or a blank page)? Does the random article feature works fine?

metal450 commented 5 years ago

Beta4. That's the version currently linked from https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@metal450 There is no download link to Kiwix-Desktop in https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/. The link is in https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-reader/... and it points properly to the beta5. Please test again with beta5 and let us know.

metal450 commented 5 years ago

There is no download link to Kiwix-Desktop in https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/

This sure looks like a link to Kiwix-Desktop to me (see video, it's beta4): https://lnk2.tk/snaps/2019-07-26_00.31.52.mp4

Yes, downloading beta5 from that other link seems to fix it.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@metal450 Thank you for your feedback. Looks like I'm blind! The links are wrong and will be fixed https://github.com/kiwix/web/issues/76. Really happy to see that the problem is fixed for you.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@nickreserved Would you be able to provide a video of the problem please? We are not able to reproduce it.

LiuPeiqiCN commented 5 years ago

beta5: search is not work; local file list is empty

beta3 search is work well,but local file list is empty even I had open a zim file.

Kiwix 0.9 is my favorite version,but it can not open "wikipedia_en_all_novid_2018-10.zim"

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@lpqi If you have no file in your library then this is normal than you have no search. Download oe load a ZIM file first. This has anyway no relation to the original bug report. Please open a new ticket if you have an other problem.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@nickreserved We have released the 2.0-rc1 which bring many improvements around suggestions. Would you be please able to give it a try and let us know if you still have problems?

nickreserved commented 5 years ago

Seems working with english ZIMs. I will try non-english.

nickreserved commented 5 years ago

No. My previous post is wrong. Nothing is working. I open ZIM but KIWIX does not keep them. Every time I must File-Open them. I open english wikipedia ZIM and it works for 1-3 articles. Not more. I open GREEK wikipedia ZIM and nothing works. Probably you are screwed with charsets.

Guys, sorry but I will become rude: This app needs at least 100 years of development before next release.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

@nickreserved So your are still unable to open the article "Nuclear fusion" from the search box? This is the topic here.

nickreserved commented 5 years ago

Yes! First time works. After 2-6 articles does not work.

Sorry, but I don't want to participate on this project via bug reporting anymore. I believe kiwix-desktop is totally crippled and I already removed any version of Kiwix-Desktop from my PC (RC or stable(!) ). I found my solution in Firefox addon. Great project.

kelson42 commented 5 years ago

Works for me, can not reproduce.