Oxide doesn't accept input on password fields if previous field had preedit

[Michael Sheldon]

Steps to reproduce

1) Visit http://mobile.twitter.com in the browser

2) Click login

3) Enter the username "Hello"

4) Tap the password field once, notice that it doesn't display the text cursor and the word ribbon is still displayed

5) Type the password "hello123"

Expected result

 The password "hello123" should be input.

Actual result

 Only "123" is input, presumably because the keyboard is still sending data as pre-edit which oxide doesn't handle for passwords.

 After tapping the field a second time Oxide does disable pre-edit correctly.

 Additionally if backspace is pressed after entering "hello123" oxide will send incorrect surrounding text information to the keyboard triggering the crash logged here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1444947

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

may need to send a hotfix for this

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

This appears to be a Chromium bug, which has the final result of the wrong field type being set; however it's fixed with Chromium 43 (which oxide 1.7 is based on). So my recommendation would be that we provide the fix for the keyboard crashing in the hotfix release without any change to oxide, as this mitigates the biggest element of the problem (that the keyboard crashes) and the issues in oxide will then be resolved as soon as oxide 1.7 is released.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

+1 oxide-1.7 is really around the corner

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Michael Sheldon <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> This appears to be a Chromium bug, which has the final result of the
> wrong field type being set; however it's fixed with Chromium 43 (which
> oxide 1.7 is based on). So my recommendation would be that we provide
> the fix for the keyboard crashing in the hotfix release without any
> change to oxide, as this mitigates the biggest element of the problem
> (that the keyboard crashes) and the issues in oxide will then be
> resolved as soon as oxide 1.7 is released.
>
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[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Oxide 1.7.8 is in ota4