Blinking cursor is higher than the text (especially on the lock screen password entry)

[Daniel van Vugt]

Unity8's blinking cursor is higher than the text.

You can see this on desktop, both on the Unity8 login screen (password entry), and in System Settings "Search". In both cases the blue cursor appears to be the right size, but is several pixels higher than the text.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Note this bug existed also before the cursor colour changed to blue :)

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Since it happens on system settings and unity8, i guess it's a SDK bug (unless two people made the same mistake in the two apps)

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

It seems to me like this is merely the space left for accents - even if the text is "AEOU" the cursor (and selection) will be high enough to accomodate for "ÁÉÓÚ". If you use other characters, say "私は猫がすきです", the spacing will differ.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

No the cursor placement used to be obviously wrong. But I think this got fixed in the past month or so.

Just waiting for some other Unity8 bugs to get fixed right now before I can retest.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity8 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]