Popover steals focus on open

[Albert Astals Cid]

Steps:
* go into dash, search for something
* cancel the search
* press the search button again

Expected:
* history pops up
* search field focused and OSK comes up

Current:
* history pops up
* search field unfocused and no OSK

Until the version 1.3.1761+16.04.20151216.1-0ubuntu1 (and included) of ubuntu-ui-toolkit the following code

http://paste.ubuntu.com/14126916/

Kept the focus on the TextField after pressing on it.

Using 1.3.1778+15.04.20151217.1-0ubuntu1 that just landed in stable-phone-overlay PPA the TextFeild doesn't have focus anymore.

It seems like a regression to me. Or was this done on purpose?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

This is a UX decision to support keyboard navigation, we'll need to work around it. I've filed bug #1528198 to track the need for a Combo box component.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note that this also affects webbrowser-app, where context menus are implemented as popovers, but stealing active focus from the webview is not desirable. I’ve found a (fragile) workaround, see bug #1526884.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.11+16.04.20160111.1-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.11+16.04.20160111.1-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

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    #1531172)
  * Fix LVWPH test failing on Xenial (Qt 5.5)
  * Fix dragging so that test passes on Xenial
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    #1528178)
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    #1508485)
  * Remove duplicated override_dh_auto_clean
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  [ Andrea Cimitan ]
  * Fix a broken binding

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.
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  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Have "make tryFoo" work with Qt 5.5
  * Make DragHandle tests run again.

  [ Lukáš Tinkl ]
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    #1531339, #1530940)
  * Fix panel drop shadow and click-to-focus of maximized apps (LP:
    #1531854)
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  [ Pawel Stolowski ]
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 -- Michał Sawicz <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:38:49 +0000