Oh, I see what's going on. I'm talking about the indicator to the right of the search bar. I do
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Settings>Dictionary>Main screen interface>Portrait orientation>Hide definition toolbar
because that "definition toolbar" imposes a high cost of screen real estate, is mostly empty, can't be reached with the left thumb, and the one button it does show offers a redundant functionality (same as the 'D' button). I believe I complained about the definition toolbar in an earlier thread, and you indicated the option to hide it as a solution, but now that solution is having side effects. I see that the indicator to the right of the search bar indicates the source of the search results, but here's how I've come to actually experience/use the app:
Once I've found the entry I want, I'm focused on the definition window. My favorite dictionary displays by default, but very often I want to scroll through the other dictionaries to get any extra info. So I do repeated presses of the 'D' button. At that stage of "drilling down," I don't care at all about the source of the results list, only about the specific entry. Basically, I have a "word exploration" mode that's entirely segregated in my mind from the "search for results" mode. I unambiguously and explicitly indicate that shift to the app when I hit the 'D' button; I likewise indicate a shift to the other mode when I click in the search bar to initiate a new search. I see why you consider my suggestion to cause an inconsistency, but perhaps other people wouldn't experience it that way. Or perhaps have the indicator to the right of the search bar change color depending on what mode it's in? In any case, the real issue is that feedback from pressing the 'D' button is currently too obtrusive (the definition toolbar), so maybe find some better way to do what the definition toolbar currently does.