[regression] Dash - Arrow keys not working in the search bar on second use

[Michal Hruby]

If the search bar's text is not an empty string, the arrow keys and the whole interaction with the search bar is in a weird state. To reproduce:

1) Open dash and search for "gedit"
2) Close the dash using the super key
3) Open the dash again
4) You should see the "gedit" search string selected, but pressing left/right arrow keys doesn't move the cursor, pressing enter doesn't activate the result, and using mouse to deselect the search string is showing weird inverted behaviour

When in state 4) pressing the escape or backspace keys (or any key to replace the selection) fixes the weird state of the search bar.

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

As a note - this used to work in earlier 5.x versions.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Michal, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nux into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[B. Clausius (barcc)]

The bug is only partially solved. It depends on the position of the mouse cursor.

1. press super key to open the dash
2. type: gedit
3. position the mouse oven an icon
4. press super key to close the dash
5. press super key to open the dash
6. press left or right key -> the cursor does not move

If the mouse is not over an icon in the dash it works as expected

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@barcc That is a different issue. I need to talk with the designers.

[Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere)]

It's fixed for me. And I can't reproduce barcc's test case.

[Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere)]

Oh sorry, I could reproduce it by moving the mouse on the launcher after re-opening it. When it happens, the focus doesn't go back on the search field even if I mouse back over it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nux - 2.12.0-0ubuntu1

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nux (2.12.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - [regression] Dash - Arrow keys not working in the search bar on second
      use (LP: #987294)
    - dash doesn't ever respond to <enter> when the previous search is
      recalled (LP: #980184)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:57:55 +0200