Dash search results leap around during search

Bug #1158044 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Unity
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Using unity from experimental ppa

Open dash
Type something
Observe some local apps appear, but other results take longer. Some appear, then just as you think it's finished, more appear, moving others out of the way. Sometimes I click on things before the full dash has finished rendering (i.e. before all results have been displayed) then a new result appears and I end up clicking on the "wrong" thing.

tags: added: 100scopes
description: updated
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
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zarquon42 (zarquon42) wrote :

It is a bit of a point-and-click adventure game....Oh no, I have opened yet another amazon item instead of the desired application (it shifted out of focus) ;)

Thomas Strehl (strehl-t)
Changed in unity:
importance: High → Critical
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Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) wrote :

Search performance and responsiveness have seen dramatic improvements since the bug was opened, so most of the problems mentioned in this bug report should be gone.
Having said that, we still have a reordering issue though and it's currently discussed with designers to find the best way of handling it and making it better for user experience.

summary: - Dash search results take seconds to appear, leap around as they do
+ Dash search results leap around during search
description: updated
Changed in unity:
importance: Critical → High
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Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote :

Unable to reproduce this in 15.10. Am I right in thinking that this has been fixed?

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Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote :

To clarify, search results appear so quickly that I'm unable to tell whether there's a problem with ordering.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

I would say it's still a problem. Here's a video of me using the dash with online search enabled. Note how the icons move around. This is on an i7 laptop.

https://youtu.be/ltkKmSUP3R0

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Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote :

Ah, okay, I see what you mean. Triaging it for the 16.04 LTS big bug review.

tags: added: desktop-bugscrub-triaged
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