NFT5 wrote:But, in Debian 8, the quick search box is gone, replaced by a button, doubling the effort to get to search.
Reminds me of something Mandriva did circa 2008. They have their own equivalent of Synaptic, and some GNOME-headed numbnut convinced the devs to suppress library packages from the package list, claiming that it was "too confusing." As a result, displaying all packages available in the repo required an extra (and unnecessary) step of ticking a check box (which, of course, wasn't displayed on the main screen).
Of course, you know what happened. The frequency of folks asking "Where the farq is
library X?" in the forums skyrocketed, leeching time and attention away from actual problems. But the devs (many of them GNOME-heads) were too damn stubborn to admit (and correct) the error.
(Wow, I sure am feeling chatty.)