Launcher - When useing Alt F1 launcher keyboard navigation, Launcher should not scroll until top or bottom of Launcher is reached

Bug #765749 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
High
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
High
Andrea Azzarone
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Andrea Azzarone

Bug Description

Pressing Alt-F1 opens the Launcher keyboard cursor select mechanism. When the Launcher contains more icons than the vertical resolution can display, scrolling is required. Currently if the very top icon is selected, pressing the down arrow once scrolls the launcher. Also if the very bottom icon is selected, pressing the up arrow once scrolls the Launcher. This behaviour is incorrect.

Desired solution:

When using the Alt F1 Launcher keyboard navigation, the Launcher should not scroll until the last fully visible launcher icon in the screen is selected. e.g. if the user starts with the select at the top of the Launcher, they will need to press the down arrow key repeatedly until the select reaches the last fully exposed launcher icon before Launcher starts to scroll. The same should also happen in reverse when the user moves the select upwards.

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John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udo
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
milestone: none → ux-backlog-1
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Jorge Castro (jorge)
tags: added: backlog
Revision history for this message
Grey Nicholson (greytheearthling) wrote :

I suggest using “Mario scrolling”, where the selected item is always in the middle of the screen (unless you're within half a screen of the end of the list).

A demonstration: http://vimeo.com/7804527

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 4.18.0
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.18.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.18.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
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      (LP: #765749)
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      (LP: #853807)
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    - Start ...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: reviewedbydesigno
removed: udo
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