[Bug 1655177] [NEW] Impossible to search for apps using onboard virtual keyboard

[aleksandar-todorovic]

Public bug reported:

It is impossible to search for apps using the `onboard` package and its
virtual keyboard. Because it's... well, a keyboard on a screen, as soon
as the first key is pressed, Slingshot registers it as the key outside
of the window and closes itself.

Unfortunately, this means that the search functionality is completely
useless on any sort of touchscreen devices.

I've tried (and succeeding) in replicating this by opening the Slingshot
both through Wingpanel and through a Meta + Space keyboard shortcut and
then doing the following:

1. Touching on a button on a screen.
2. Using the touchpad to navigate to some key on the keyboard and touching it (which means that this issue is easily reproducible on non-touchscreen devices).

In both of these cases, Slingshot closed.

Now, I have absolutely no proposal for the fix, but I think that this is
a non-expected feature for a touchscreen device niche.

** Affects: slingshot
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: touch

** Also affects: onboard (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: onboard (Ubuntu)

** Description changed:

  It is impossible to search for apps using the `onboard` package and its
  virtual keyboard. Because it's... well, a keyboard on a screen, as soon
  as the first key is pressed, Slingshot registers it as the key outside
  of the window and closes itself.
  
  Unfortunately, this means that the search functionality is completely
  useless on any sort of touchscreen devices.
  
  I've tried (and succeeding) in replicating this by opening the Slingshot
  both through Wingpanel and through a Meta + Space keyboard shortcut and
  then doing the following:
  
  1. Touching on a button on a screen.
- 2. Using the touchpad to navigate to some key on the keyboard and touching it.
+ 2. Using the touchpad to navigate to some key on the keyboard and touching it (which means that this issue is easily reproducible on non-touchscreen devices).
  
  In both of these cases, Slingshot closed.
  
  Now, I have absolutely no proposal for the fix, but I think that this is
  a non-expected feature for a touchscreen device niche.

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