Bug report #15437
Updated by Harrissou Santanna about 6 years ago
In attribute table, Ctrl F opens a dialog to search features you'd like to select or filter in the layer.
Out of the attribute table, holding Ctrl F opens the Filter provider dialog of the current layer, whose effect is to "remove" from the provider some features.
In the first case, you are looking for search features; in the other, you filter out from the project some features (I I don't think it's a search - which (which is the common assumption of Ctrl F) and having same shortcut for those two functions (which dramatically do different things) features sounds confusing.
Out of the attribute table, holding Ctrl F opens the Filter provider dialog of the current layer, whose effect is to "remove" from the provider some features.
In the first case, you are looking for search features; in the other, you filter out from the project some features (I I don't think it's a search - which (which is the common assumption of Ctrl F) and having same shortcut for those two functions (which dramatically do different things) features sounds confusing.