Launcher - When Launcher already has keyboard focus, Alt-F1 doesn't exit focus

[Lohith D Shivamurthy]

How to repro:
1) Press Alt-F1 - Launcher is revealed, highlight(focus)ing the Dash Button.
2) Press Down Arrow - The next item in the launcher gets keyboard focus.
3) Press Alt-F1 again

Expected:
Pressing Alt-F1 again at any point should exit the Launcher keyboard navigation mode.

Actual:
Successive Alt-F1 key presses are ignored.

[Gerry Boland (gerboland)]

Adding design to get clarification on behaviour.

[Lohith D Shivamurthy (dyams)]

@JohnLea
<<should exit the Launcher keyboard navigation mode.>>
Is the expected output is to toggle the keyboard focus on Alt-F1?
If not?
After second Alt-F1 how will the user gain the keyboard focus for launcher again?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

i confirm this issue in unity with oneiric i am able to reproduce this issue and one more this when we press alt+f1 then launcher appear and didn't hide while pressing esc, or clicking on the focused window, one more thing launcher feature dosen't work well for example like if we put the mouse to the last (down) of the launcher it automatically dosen't scroll down but when we scroll down on touchpad than it goes down mean scroll downward and after 1 mint or 2mint it become normal.

[Gerry Boland (gerboland)]

In conversation with John Lea, the matter is clarified as follows:

Pressing Alt+F1 will take keyboard focus from the active application, summon Launcher (if not visible already) and give it focus, which must always highlight the BFB button first.

Pressing Alt+F1 with the Launcher focussed will make it give away focus (back to application it stole it from). Launcher will slide out of view should it be obstructing a window, or remain on screen is not (as is usual behaviour).

Alt+F1 is essentially a toggle giving/releasing focus to the Launcher.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

If this is considered a bug in unity (3d) then the likely possibility would be 'while holding Alt pressing F1 doesn't toggle keyboard focus on the launcher

Otherwise if the launcher already has keyboard focus, (Alt+F1, Alt released), then as soon as Alt is re- touched focus is removed , either going to Hud (tap) or last opened window/Desktop (press

Unless , 'when launcher already has keyboard focus tapping or pressing Alt should not remove focus'?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

In precise now the situation looks different. Pressing alt-f1 and then just pressing alt would just exit from navigation.. (another bugs fixing this one :p)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.8.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.8.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

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