GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 683024
Entering and exiting overview have inconsistent key behaviour
Last modified: 2012-11-08 15:07:28 UTC
To enter the overview, the action is set to key release. The meta/window key have to be pressed and released for the overview to kick in. If we keep the key pressed, overview is not displayed (until key is released). This kind of causes a feeling that the overview is slow/taking time/memory intensive. But when exiting the overview, the action is set to keypress. The overview is exitied when we press the key and feels a lot faster. Please make it consistent by setting the enter overview action to keypress.
This would prevent people from typing shortcuts that begin with <Super>
We could it make consistent on the other way round, and exit the overview on release. Among other things, shortcuts ought to work in the overview...
I agree, shortcuts are unavoidable. Exit on key release would be better, I guess.
Any progress here?
Created attachment 228035 [details] [review] main: hide the overview on key release Entering the overview with the overlay key is done on key release but exiting the overview on key press, which is inconsistent. This change makes the overview hidden also on key release.
Thanks for the patch Stéphane! It works well here.
Review of attachment 228035 [details] [review]: LGTM
Comment on attachment 228035 [details] [review] main: hide the overview on key release Pushed as 6e4c89b3101259275694eb3112d05ab005aec117 (git-bz push did not update the bug? I'll double check next time)
Comment on attachment 228035 [details] [review] main: hide the overview on key release Ok (I was missing priviledges)
Unfortunately, this change conflicts with an earlier commit dd3484b93f3f846c98a331bdc7243f91d57b6ac8 "dash: Open 'Show Apps' with Super+A", since it makes the overview open and almost-immediately close again.
(In reply to comment #10) > Unfortunately, this change conflicts with an earlier commit > dd3484b93f3f846c98a331bdc7243f91d57b6ac8 "dash: Open 'Show Apps' with Super+A", > since it makes the overview open and almost-immediately close again. This is bug 687922.