Florence loses focus on itself on widget with history drop down pane

[Alex Stevens]

Binary package hint: florence

When typing in Florence - with a touch screen or mouse - into a text widget (with a drop down history pane), Florence will lose focus on itself, forcing the user to tap Florence once again to type the next letter. Essentially this is double tapping the screen for every letter just to enter in text.

This is clearly evident in Firefox 4.0's search and address bar. The user would type one letter into the address bar, and Firefox would show previously visited web pages with that letter. This would remove focus from Florence, and as described above, require the user to take focus on Florence just to type the next letter.

It would be expected that Florence take focus at all times.

Hopefully this can be resolved :P

Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

florence:
  Installed: 0.5.0-2
  Candidate: 0.5.0-2

[Michael M. (michael-muhn)]

Reproduced here:
UltmateEdition Linux 3.0.1 based on Natty
Gnome 2.32.1

florence 0.5.0.2 as in Repo and
florence 0.5.2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Michael M. (michael-muhn)]

Seems like Firefox is using a similar technique with its autofill menus as Florence when it comes to focusing.
Click into the searchbox in firefox, start typing.
As soon as matches are found, a menu opens, florence completely loses focus.
Click next letter in Florence, it only turns blue as it usually does onMouseOver. At the same time, the menu disappears from view in firefox. The click only gave focus back to Florence, all letters react onMouseOver.
Click the letter again. It gets sent to the input field. If Firefox finds a match, a menu reappears, Florence looses focus again.
Rinse, repeat.
Same with Firefox's adress bar, but not, as far as I can see, with standard form fields.
But: Googles realtime search, where the page gets reloaded as you type, sometimes does the same.
I even tried to tell Compiz to raise and focus the window under the mouse after 150ms, but it can't do that with florence, since florence itself isn't really focusable.
Also mentionable: Onboard doesn't show this behavior.

[Michael M. (michael-muhn)]

Strike my last sentence: As of version 0.96, onboard has the same problem.