** Description changed:
With current behavior:
- Assume user has Firefox window active, and has a couple of applications
running in system panel.
- User presses 'Alt' and enters text "pref"
- Auto-complete list shows four choices, from different applications. First
choice is in focus, and a small app icon appears where the dash normally is,
indicating which application the option belongs to.
- User presses keyboard down arrow. Focus moves down to next auto-complete
choice, and "dash" icon changes to the icon for that app. There is no confusion
about which application you are about to interface with.
Problem:
If user wants to use mouse, it is unclear which applications own the
auto-complete suggestions beyond the first in the list. User cannot
discover which application owned the action in the HUD auto-complete
list until after he clicks it. A screenshot is attached showing the
problem (which applications own the two "> Preferences" entries?).
Solution:
Update the auto-complete suggestion list focus on mouse-over. This way,
when the user goes to click an entry, the focus will change to where
user's mouse is pointed, and the "dash" icon will update to the icon of
the application that owns the entry. The user will know which
application he is about to act upon.
+
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ Desired Solution:
+
+ Update the auto-complete suggestion list focus on mouse-over. This
+ means:
+
+ - move the focus box
+
+ - update the app icon to reflect the currently focused app
+
+ - update the gray auto-complete text in the search box (when this is
+ implemented, this feature is not in the 12.04 implementation of the HUD)
** Tags added: udp
** Also affects: unity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea)
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: unity
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity
Milestone: None => backlog
** Tags added: hud
** Summary changed:
- HUD improvement: change auto-complete focus on mouse-over
+ HUD - auto-complete should focus on mouse-over
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