When no search query has been entered, we have placeholder text saying: "Search BitBake variables", not "Search variables". See page 3 of https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/attachment.cgi?id=1754. This defect is only a flaw.
I think I should be able to fix this one.
Fix at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=bbarrosp/fix-5998&id=3965e0dba5076e9b4970f825f37a8a757f27f6bb
merged to master http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=7d9f1e2ed9381334fbced290e432d74fb55e3f95
Verified in 3e528d3e4bc542ca2f654c54363c56af0fb9f61b.