Hitting empty area of Combined Bar (ICS tablet) causes text entry prompt to closes

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CM9 touchpad nightly 20120418
Hackers Keyboard 1.31.1311 (market)

When typing using the default keyboard, hitting the blank space in the middle 
of the combined bar will be treated as a press of the key above the point that 
was hit.

With Hackers Keyboard, this region is typically just ignored. However, when 
typing within a text entry prompt, the blank space will take focus away from 
the prompt causing it to close and lose all entered text. (As an example, see 
adding a new comment in the Reddit News application.)

It is very easy to miss the space bar and hit this blank region when typing 
quickly.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by spbo...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2012 at 4:14

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This error especially annoying in the imo app. If the action bar is 
accidentially touched the app exits completely to the homescreen and the input 
is lost.

Original comment by s.pfiffner on 5 Jul 2012 at 2:21

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I can't reproduce this effect on my Xoom tablet, it ignores taps on the blank 
part of the bottom bar.

Have you tried if any other keyboards have the same behavior? I suspect this 
may be a problem at the OS level, and the action happens before the keyboard 
even gets access to the touch event. For example, there's no way that I could 
do anything about accidental touches of the "home" softkey, the OS reacts to 
that directly.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2012 at 11:24

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I just found a possible way to have the keyboard handle touches on the 
notification bar, assuming that the operating system cooperates. Please follow 
issue 295 if you want to track that planned change.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2012 at 5:47