Typing should immediately search; focusing the search field is fiddly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Neil J. Patel | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
In Unity's various Places right now, the search field can be focused or unfocused. Using the scroll bar, for example, will unfocus it. To search again, one must click the search field. Just typing as if the field is focused yields nothing. As far as I can tell, there is no real benefit to this because the rest of the interface will only be expecting keys related to navigation; the search field is the only text input. The current behaviour just slows down interaction.
Instead, pressing any key on the keyboard that is not otherwise handled should cause the search field to be focused with the corresponding input handled. This is also consistent with the type-to-search behaviour in most Gtk tree views. (See Empathy IM for a particularly strong example).
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
tags: | added: needs-design |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6.4 → 3.6.6 |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Nice catch, nux should not couple keyboard and mouse focus like it does.