I can confirm that this bug still exists in the live cd of Beta-1 of
Ubuntu 12.04. Furthermore, the HUD introduced in 12.04 shows the same
behavior when trying to navigate the HUD search results with the neo
arrow-keys.
If you try to reproduce the bug, please be aware that as a workaround
for Bug #879838, the neo keyboard layout has to be the only selected
layout in the keyboard preferences to work properly.
I think 'flickering' is not the right description of the actual
behavior: It seems that on pressing 'AltGr+a' (neo down-arrow-key) the
first entry is selected for a very short moment, but then the focus is
immediately switched back to the search-input-field. If one holds down
'AltGr+a' (neo down-arrow-key), the results are iterated, but as soon as
the key is released the focus gets switched back.
My guess is that the AltGr key is treated the same way as "normal" keys:
If you search something in the dash, press the down button two times to
select the first entry and then type any character (e.g. 'f'), the focus
gets switched back to the input field and the newly typed character gets
appended to the search string.
** Description changed:
Unity dash search results can be navigated using the arrow-keys.
The german 'neo2' keyboard layout comes with an additional method to
enter the arrow-keys using 'AltGr+{i,a,e,l}'. This allows to use the
arrow-keys without having to leave the home row.
However, if one tries to use this method to navigate the unity dash
results, the first highlighted entry will flicker and one is not able to
change the currently selected entry.
- Steps to reproduce:
- 1. Select 'German (Neo 2)' as keyboard layout in gnome
+ Steps to reproduce:
+ 1. Select 'German (Neo 2)' as _only_ keyboard layout in gnome (workaround for
Bug #879838)
2. Verify that arrow-keys can be entered using 'AltGr+{i,a,e,l}' (e.g.
navigating in gedit)
3. press windows-key to show dash, enter some word to search for
4. Try to navigate to the first search result pressing 'AltGr+a' twice
- -> expected behavior: first search entry is highlighted
- -> actual behavior: nothing but flickering
-
+ -> expected behavior: first search entry is highlighted
+ -> actual behavior: first entry gets selected, but focus is immediately
switched back to the input field
additional infos:
ubuntu version: Ubuntu 11.10
unity:
- Installed: 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
- Candidate: 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
- Version table:
- *** 4.28.0-0ubuntu2 0
- 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
- 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
- 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
+ Installed: 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
+ Candidate: 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
+ Version table:
+ *** 4.28.0-0ubuntu2 0
+ 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
+ 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
xkb-data:
- Installed: 2.3-1ubuntu2
- Candidate: 2.3-1ubuntu2
- Version table:
- *** 2.3-1ubuntu2 0
- 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ Installed: 2.3-1ubuntu2
+ Candidate: 2.3-1ubuntu2
+ Version table:
+ *** 2.3-1ubuntu2 0
+ 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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unity dash results not navigate-able with neo2 kbd layout
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