HUD widget sometimes breaks when shrinking to show a single result

[Chris Bainbridge]

close all open application windows.
tap alt.
type enter
=there are no results. There should be results. Why does "enter" have no results but "ente" or "enter " do have results?
hit spacebar
select "Enter Location... (Go")
Nothing happens - it should have opened the"Location" window

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: hud 13.10.1+14.04.20140326-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Apr 1 19:22:55 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
SourcePackage: hud
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
upstart.hud.log:
 hud-service: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
 hud-service: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server :0.
upstart.window-stack-bridge.log:
 QDBusConnection: name 'org.ayatana.bamf' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5'
 QDBusConnection: name 'org.ayatana.bamf' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.10'

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

Also see bug #1300931

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1300936

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

I believe this is actually a bug presentation of the results in the Unity shell. Some quick debugging in HUD reveals that "enter" does, indeed, have the single, correct, result:

QUERY = ("enter")
suggestion "<b>Enter</b> Location… (Go)"

It seems like the Unity widget that presents the results doesn't always handle resizing to only having a single result. If you repeatedly switch between "ente" and "enter", you will see it sometimes showing no results, and sometimes showing a single result.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue with current versions? I can't reproduce here on wily

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Still reproducable by repeatedly switching between "enter locat" and "enter locati" when in the file explorer.

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Note that the widget is a totally different size when there are genuinely no results.

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Testing performed on an up to date vivid install under VMware.