Boxes: proceeding with a search result

[grahamperrin]

25.04.

In Boxes:

1. seek FreeBSD
2. click FreeBSD 14.2 x86_64

Result:

3. the list of operating systems, as if I escaped without clicking – FreeBSD is not in sight.

Am I missing something?

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Side note: at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?advanced=1 I see no way to perform title-only searches.

[rubi1200]

Are you referring to GNOME Boxes?

You need to search then click then click again to start the download.

Mostly, I prefer finding torrents for the distro I want to test and then add in that way because from within Boxes it uses an ordinary http download.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks.

Your second screenshot shows the item in sight.

In my case:

… not in sight.

[vanadium]

I do not think you are missing anything: you have identified a flawed interface. Indeed, I can reproduce the inconsistent behavior you indicate. It is not possible to launch a download from within these search results.

[rubi1200]

I was able to launch the download…

Instead of searching, if you open Boxes and click to Download OS and scroll down through the results once they load: do you see the FreeBSD ISO icon?

[grahamperrin]

The notebook that I used for the opening post has gone for write-off.

I can’t reproduce the originally reported issue with Boxes on Ubuntu as a VirtualBox guest.

@vanadium is the issue consistently reproducible for you?

[vanadium]

On as second try: no. After searching and clicking an item in the search results, the item is “selected”, and may be displayed at the bottom of the list. I have the impression that, occasionally, that selected item is not in the viewport, but today, I cannot reproduce it.

For me currently, this is Boxes 48 in a default Fedora install.