Hi, thanks for the issue.
I'll look into how to do it, shouldn't be too difficult I hope.

I've implemented typo to search, do you mind testing it?

@nokyan I'm not the issue creator but I just tested it.
It works in the "Apps" view but not the "Processes" view.
Another thing I noticed: after switching to another view (like Processes or any of the hardware monitors) and back the sidebar has focus and type to search does not work until you click on anything in the Apps list

Just built from the search-bar branch. I got it to work in both the Apps and Processes view. Just a couple weird things:

• The search bar is not automatically dismissed when you change to a different view and come back, even if the bar was empty. I'm not sure if there's a standard for that particular behavior, but Gnome Software has it dismiss every time you change views. Might just be a matter of taste.
• Search results are sorted alphabetically rather than by relevance to the search term (see screenshots)
• I am also having the issue where type to search doesn't work after you change views.

Actually now that I look at it, it's not quite alphabetical order. I don't know what dbus-daemon is doing down there at the bottom.

Thank you for testing.

The search bar is not automatically dismissed when you change to a different view and come back, even if the bar was empty. I'm not sure if there's a standard for that particular behavior, but Gnome Software has it dismiss every time you change views. Might just be a matter of taste.

I'll look into it.

Search results are sorted alphabetically rather than by relevance to the search term (see screenshots)

That's on purpose, I personally don't like when searches like that are sorted by some obscure relevance metric. Your Processes view wasn't alphabetically sorted because you set it to sort by memory usage.

I am also having the issue where type to search doesn't work after you change views.

I haven't yet found out how to fix that. Using grab_focus() on the content stack after the views change doesn't do anything. I'll have to keep trying.