HUD does not show the adequate results in Ubuntu 14.04

Bug #1299191 reported by Felix
14
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Libcolumbus
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
Unity HUD
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
hud (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

On a live version of trusty thar - beta -:

When I use the HUD menu in an application, I have to enter lots of letters, until the right entry shows up. For the first 3/5 letters, the menu shows just unfitting entries, that do not even match the combination of letters. This way the HUD menue gets almost useless, since one has to enter almost the whole menue entry without any knowledge if it was spelled correctly in advance.

To reproduce:
- Use e.g. Libre Office Writer (the Firefox Menue shew the same behavior)
- Press ALT
- try to insert a FOOTNOTE
- press letters: foo
- HUD shows 5 menue entries without footnote beeing included. infact it does not show 1 entry uncluding even foo*
- complete the search string: the right entry does appear in the list of suggested entries not before the letters FOOTNO are entered.

- In 12.04 and subsequent releases menue entries that fit the pattern show up immediately.

Felix (felixw83-z)
description: updated
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Pete Woods (pete-woods) wrote :

See similar bug: lp:1303395

Hopefully we can spare some time to look into libcolumbus and address this soon.

Changed in libcolumbus:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in hud:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in hud (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in libcolumbus:
importance: Undecided → Medium
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.