Public bug reported:
When Category Headers (e.g., "Applications" or "Files & Folders" or
"Recent") do not contain a "see # more results" line next to them, they
give no indication to the user when they receive keyboard-focus. All
other items in the dash gain a soft highlight when they receive
keyboard-focus. This soft-highlight helps communicate to the user where
the keyboard-focus resides.
It might be a good idea to give some sort of feedback to the user when a
Category Header is the item that has keyboard focus. As shown in the
attached screenshot, despite the Category Header "Files & Folders"
having keyboard focus, no indication of this fact is shown to the user.
Knowing where the keyboard-focus resides in the Dash is helpful because
it allows users to know where they are "located" in the Dash. I often
lose my place in the Dash because the focus lands on a Category Header
that doesn't contain a "see # more results" line. I am left trying to
figure out where my cursor/keyboard-focus went. Tapping the left and/or
right arrow-keys does nothing. and if I don't know where to look,
sometimes even tapping the up & down arrow-keys won't catch my attention
because I am looking at a different section of the Dash.
Perhaps when a Category Header receives keyboard-focus it could gain the
soft-highlight and/or be underlined or something?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-2d-places 4.12.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 15 10:57:32 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-2d-places
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-06 (8 days ago)
** Affects: unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity
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Category Headers (e.g., "Recent") don't indicate when they have
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