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search field in shell should disable predictive text

Bug #1340409 reported by Bill Filler
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Bill Filler

Bug Description

if word suggestion/spell checking turned on in the keyboard then search doesn't work from the shell as it should.
The fix is to disable predictive text by setting this property on the search text field:
inputMethodHints: Qt.ImhNoPredictiveText

Tags: rtm14

Related branches

lp:~bfiller/unity8/fix-1340409
Michał Sawicz: Approve
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Diff: 11 lines (+1/-0)
1 file modified
qml/Components/PageHeader.qml (+1/-0)
lp:ubuntu/utopic-proposed/unity8
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in unity8:
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
tags: added: rtm14
Revision history for this message
Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

Related: bug #1350497, fixing which would lift the need for this one.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

Note that bug fix is not planned in the near term

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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

I've submitted the simple one line fix for this, lets land it please

Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in unity8:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.00+14.10.20140731.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity8 (8.00+14.10.20140731.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Gerry Boland ]
  * Fix the run.sh script - pretend to be running with qtmir and emit
    SIGSTOP at the right time

  [ Ying-Chun Liu ]
  * Implement Attribute UI. (LP: #1282460)

  [ Albert Astals ]
  * Hide search history popup as soon as you start typing As discussed
    with Mike and Saviq
  * Compile with for scopes-v3 unity-api
  * PageHeader: Unfocus search field when search entry is selected
  * Show search field if the search query changes
  * Test: Add a condition for art.height being > 0 means stuff has
    already been layouted a bit without it it can happen that we get 0
    for everything at startup and tests still pass
  * Remove leftover in test of an old headerless implementation

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * Drop Recent apps category from Dash (LP: #1281092)
  * update launcher count emblems to match new spec (LP: #1338984)

  [ Bill Filler ]
  * disable predictive text for dash search field (LP: #1340409)

  [ CI bot ]
  * Resync trunk

  [ Antti Kaijanmäki ]
  * DefaultIndicatorPage: use Loader status to determine the visible
    property. (LP: #1350555)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:51:01 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
assignee: Michał Sawicz (saviq) → Bill Filler (bfiller)
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
no longer affects: unity8
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