Unatural tabbing order on dash

[Sam L.]

In Ubuntu 11.04 typing text into the search field of the dash, would display search results. Pressing [TAB] would then allow you to tab down and highlight the first search result. In 11.10 pressing [TAB] now changes cycles through thelens being used to search, as indicated at the bottom of the dash. I suggest that the tab behaviour from 11.04 should be preserved as it seems to be a more "natural" choice.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

added ayatana-design as affects and status as incomplete as we wait for design input on this one.

[Jens (jbmikk)]

Currently icons can be selected by using the arrow keys, but I think it would be better to have some kind of "home keys position" friendly alternative.

Besides, the "Filter Results" option does not seem to be selectable using the keyboard (not even with the arrows, in fact there seems to be a rendering problem when pressing "Right" or "Left" on the search field). This filtering option should be included in the cycling, including the filtering menu itself, for which I haven't found a way to access with the keyboard.

I'm not sure if all of these things should be considered one bug or many, but I think keyboard cycling in the dash should be carefully thought again. There should be an easy way to switch between lenses, icons, and all other options in the dash. All of this shortcuts should also be customizable from the gconf-editor, so if someones not happy with the layout they could change it.

Currently the window switcher utilizes two shortcuts, "Alt+Tab" for window group switching and "Alt+`" (the key above tab) for window instance switching. Maybe a similar setup could be made for switching between lenses (groups) and items withing the current lense.