[Bug]: the string "Bridge, museum, hotel" is not visible

[amire80]

Summary

This is a follow-up to the pull request #6477. The message nearby_search_hint should be visible as a placeholder in the search box in the Nearby screen, but it's not actually visible.

Note: I'm somewhat of a beginner in this project, so I might be misunderstanding something. What is certain is that I tried various ways to actually see this string in the app, and nothing worked.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Nearby.
2. Go to the search box.

Expected behaviour

"Bridge, museum, hotel" is supposed to be visible as a placeholder.

Actual behaviour

There is no placeholder.

Device name

Samsung Galaxy S23

Android version

15

Commons app version

6.0.2~2811b181b

Device logs

No response

Screenshots

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Would you like to work on the issue?

None

[nicolas-raoul]

Note: I also tried and did not find that search hint in the UI.

[amire80]

In general, something about that screen is quite weird. When I try searching for things in the search box, nothing really happens. And the list with "BOOKMARKS, BUILDING, HOUSE, COTTAGE", etc. doesn't seem to do something useful. Either I'm misunderstanding the Nearby function, or something there is buggy.

[XinyuYangYXY]

Can I solve this issue?

[XinyuYangYXY]

Just to confirm, you mean that the string “Bridge, museum, hotel” (from nearby_search_hint)
is supposed to appear inside the search box as a grey placeholder —
not as one of the listed category items like “BUILDING” or “HOUSE”, right?

[amire80]

Yes, I think that it's supposed to appear separately as a placeholder in the search box, but @nicolas-raoul should confirm. It's definitely distinct from the list of BUILDING, HOUSE, etc. I'm mostly a localization expert, and I'm not an expert in how this app works.

[nicolas-raoul]

Yes, I believe so.

[XinyuYangYXY]

I think I have understood this requirement and have started to fix the matter. Could you assign this issue to me?