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HUD's item which is being mouse-hovered is selected, making fast typing and clicking Enter unsafe

Bug #1066442 reported by Pablo Almeida
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Brandon Schaefer
Unity 7.0.0 "R series"
6.0
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Brandon Schaefer

Bug Description

When the HUD is invoked, no items appear on the list, as usual. When the user begins to type, a list of matches comes up, but if the mouse cursor is over the area where a item appears, that item will be selected, so, if the user types Enter (or Return) to select the first item on the list (as we usually do when we use the HUD for speed), the item being hovered is selected instead of the first item on the list.

This is specially annoying in small screens. I'm on a netbook and the HUD takes the upper half of the screen when it's showing five results, making it 50% likely for this undesired behaviour to happen.

Suggestion: HUD should only select an item on the list by mouse-hovering if the mouse moves AFTER the list appears.

Related branches

lp://staging/~brandontschaefer/unity/fix-1066442
Rejected for merging into lp://staging/unity
Nick Dedekind (community): Needs Fixing
Diff: 82 lines (+21/-2)
3 files modified
hud/HudView.cpp (+10/-2)
hud/HudView.h (+1/-0)
tests/autopilot/unity/tests/test_hud.py (+10/-0)
lp://staging/~brandontschaefer/unity/lp.1066442-fix
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Approve
Diff: 95 lines (+22/-8)
2 files modified
hud/HudView.cpp (+11/-8)
tests/autopilot/unity/tests/test_hud.py (+11/-0)
Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)
summary: HUD's item which is being mouse-hovered is selected, making fast typing
- and clicking Enter by keyboard unsafe
+ and clicking Enter unsafe
Omer Akram (om26er)
affects: indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
no longer affects: unity/5.0
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
milestone: none → 7.0.0
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone backlog

Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.03.20-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (6.12.0daily13.03.20-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * ‘No Image Available’ in previews isn’t translatable (LP: #1106849)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * Unity unit tests take too long to finish (LP: #1053163)
  * Unity FTBFS xgettext unicode TrashLauncherIcon.cpp:91 (LP: #1156931)
  * HUD's item which is being mouse-hovered is selected, making fast
    typing and clicking Enter unsafe (LP: #1066442)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Icons edges are not visible on the 13.04 unity launcher (LP:
    #1156698)
  * Clicking on a device (volume) icon doesn't always bring nautilus to
    focus (LP: #1154792)
  * [Regression] No "filter result" label in the dash. (LP: #1155550)
  * Launcher icon edges become invisible when loading an application
    (LP: #1157303)
  * [regression] Tooltip label is not centered (LP: #1155553)
  * Clicking on trash icon doesn't always bring nautilus to focus (LP:
    #1154862)
  * Shutdown dialogue should close the overlays when activated from
    power button (LP: #1155610)
  * New shutdown Dialogs, shutdown/restart should change order. (LP:
    #1154578)
  * Shut Down dialog spells "Shut Down" incorrectly (LP: #1156641)
  * New shutdown dialog had no default option selected (LP: #1155562)
  * alt-tab - the 'pips' the indicate a application has multiple windows
    open look pixelated (LP: #863331)
  * Log Out dialog spells "Log Out" incorrectly (LP: #1156638)
  * Launching an application from the "Appname" quicklist could not
    bring it to focus (LP: #1155225)

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * gcalctool desktop file got renamed (LP: #1156810)

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Launcher - auto-scroll needs to be more progressive (LP: #765732)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Tooltip timeout should not be resetted on each mouse movement. (LP:
    #1155659)
  * The sharp white line between dash and launcher is missing (LP:
    #1125346)
  * Reduce launcher tooltip timeout. (LP: #1155665)
  * Launcher tooltips need fade animation on show/hide. (LP: #1155672)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3239
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:03:16 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.0.0 "R series".

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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