1015539 - it's too easy to miss the suggestion bar and click outside the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

One of the biggest problems I have using the keyboard on my hamachi (using self-built user builds running master) is that I often try to click on a suggested word (when I've made a typo) but my tap is interpreted as being above the suggestion bar, and thus goes to the app rather than the keyboard.  This mistake is often somewhat difficult to recover from, since I often need to place the caret back where I was typing and then manually correct the word that I was in the middle of typing.

Steps to reproduce:
 1. In Settings App -> Keyboards -> Built-in Keyboard, make sure both "Auto correction" and "Word suggestion" are selected
 2. start Email app, and click the compose icon
 3. start typing in the message body
 4. tap on one of the suggestions just above the keyboard

Actual results:
  About 10% of the time I miss the suggestion and end up tapping above the keyboard, which either moves the caret or focuses something else and closes the keyboard.

Expected results:
  It should be harder to miss the suggestion bar somehow.

Comment 1

[Jan Jongboom [:janjongboom] (inactive)]

Not really a problem for me, and I think it's also the first time someone reports this. Let's keep the bug open and see if anyone else reports the same.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on