Launcher - Launcher icon for Dash does not highlight when the Alt+F1 key shortcut is pressed

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]

When you press Alt+F1 to select an icon from the Launcher by using the keyboard, the currently selected icon is highlighted with a white frame. This do not happen for the first Launcher icon (the BFB).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

what does design say on this should navigation start from the first app launcher or should the BFB be highlighted. currently this not good for someone using alt+f1 for the first time under unity as nothing is highlighted

[John Lea (johnlea)]

This bug is a regression

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

What is Alt-F1 supposed to do? Do we have a list of key bindings anywhere?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Alt+F1 gives focus to the Launcher to manage it with the keyboard. A (unofficial and for Natty) list of keybindings is available in AskUbuntu.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

@fitoschido; another list of keybindings is in the image attached to bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/855532 ;-)

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The dup attached to this notes a more significant side-effect: pressing Alt-F1 puts things into a mode that is very hard to get out of.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@Tim
Since bfb launcher icon is a special icon, how it should be during key nav? Can you pass me a mockup, please?

P.S.: i need one or more new png files but I can ask Rosie for those.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

You might want to have a peek at how its done in unity-2d I don't expect any special treatment for BFB in this case.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@Omer, but it's too white? :)

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

sorry... it's too white! :)

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

What do you think about this (see the attachment)?

[John Lea (johnlea)]

@andyrock; could you attach a screencast of the focus switching between the bfb and the top icon to this bug, thx!

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@John

[John Lea (johnlea)]

Reviewed and signed off by design, thx!

It would be also be good to discuss this bug in Budapest, as there are a couple of asset changes that we might want to play with, but this is easier to do when we are sitting face to face.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.0.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.0.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

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