some improvement to appearance

drawer.css

@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 window {
-    background-color: rgba (36, 47, 79, 0.9);
+    background-color: rgba (36, 47, 79, 0.95);
     color: #eeeeee
 }
 
-list {
-    background: none;
-    border-radius: 15px
-}
-
 entry {
     background-color: rgba (0, 0, 0, 0.2)
 }
@@ -25,3 +20,9 @@ button:hover {
     padding-bottom: 5px;
     border-bottom: 1px dotted gray
 }
+
+#files-box {
+    padding: 5px;
+    border: 1px dotted gray;
+    border-radius: 15px
+}

main.go

@@ -323,9 +323,11 @@ func main() {
 
 	placeholder, _ := gtk.BoxNew(gtk.ORIENTATION_VERTICAL, 0)
 	resultsWrapper.PackStart(placeholder, true, true, 0)
+	placeholder.SetSizeRequest(20, 20)
 
 	wrapper, _ := gtk.BoxNew(gtk.ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL, 0)
 	fileSearchResultWrapper, _ = gtk.BoxNew(gtk.ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL, 0)
+	fileSearchResultWrapper.SetProperty("name", "files-box")
 	wrapper.PackStart(fileSearchResultWrapper, true, false, 0)
 	resultsWrapper.PackEnd(wrapper, false, false, 10)
 
@@ -337,6 +339,7 @@ func main() {
 	win.ShowAll()
 	fileSearchResultWrapper.SetSizeRequest(appFlowBox.GetAllocatedWidth(), 1)
 	categoriesWrapper.SetSizeRequest(1, categoriesWrapper.GetAllocatedHeight()*2)
+	fileSearchResultWrapper.Hide()
 
 	t := time.Now()
 	println(fmt.Sprintf("UI created in %v ms. Thank you for your patience.", t.Sub(timeStart).Milliseconds()))

uicomponents.go

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ func flowBoxButton(entry desktopEntry) *gtk.Button {
 	return button
 }
 
-func setUpFileSearchResult() *gtk.FlowBox {
+func setUpFileSearchResultContainer() *gtk.FlowBox {
 	if fileSearchResultFlowBox != nil {
 		fileSearchResultFlowBox.Destroy()
 	}
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ func setUpSearchEntry() *gtk.SearchEntry {
 				if fileSearchResultFlowBox != nil {
 					fileSearchResultFlowBox.Destroy()
 				}
-				fileSearchResultFlowBox = setUpFileSearchResult()
+				fileSearchResultFlowBox = setUpFileSearchResultContainer()
 				for key := range userDirsMap {
 					if key != "home" {
 						fileSearchResults = nil
@@ -321,11 +321,13 @@ func setUpSearchEntry() *gtk.SearchEntry {
 				}
 				if fileSearchResultFlowBox.GetChildren().Length() == 0 {
 					fileSearchResultFlowBox.Hide()
+					statusLabel.SetText("0 results")
 				}
 			} else {
 				if fileSearchResultFlowBox != nil {
 					fileSearchResultFlowBox.Destroy()
 				}
+				fileSearchResultWrapper.Hide()
 			}
 		} else {
 			if fileSearchResultFlowBox != nil {