Dash - The search bar gets the focus when pressing invalid keys

Bug Description

[Test Case]
1. Open the dash
2. Use the keyboard navigation to focus a dash icon
3. Press SHIFT (just it) (or CTRL, ALT, F1...)
-> Verify that nothing happens

[Regression Potential]
Broken dash input or not working IBus input.

Original description:

To reproduce:

[*] Open the dash
[*] Use the keyboard navigation to focus a dash icon
[*] Press SHIFT (just it) (or CTRL, ALT, F1...)

Outcome:
The search bar gets the focus.

What should happens:
Nothing.

Hello Andrea, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/5.14.0-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.14.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.14.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

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Pressing the Alt key, the Dash is correctly dismissed and the HUD launched. Maybe the description should be modified.

The problem was about keeping pressed Alt, not only tapping it.