Comment 7 for bug 1325026

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marmuta (marmuta) wrote :

Quoting from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1283491/comments/11:
> I found it out. I am now sure this bug is fixed.
> What I still saw appears to be a feature: When I opened the search dialog
> in geany (which I have usually placed in the > lower half of the screen),
> onboard jumps out of the way so that the input field is not occluded.
> It makes sense, but wasn't obvious to me.
Yes, it is a feature, though I can imagine it might be somewhat confusing at first. That jumping is our attempt to deal with desktop environments not (yet) optimized for screen keyboards. We wouldn't need it if it was guaranteed that text entries could never end up below Onboard.