[Ayatana] Improving Launcher behavior

[Igor Vatavuk <vatavuk.igor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I have a suggestion regarding the behavior of the Unity Launcher.
I think the problem with the current design is that when you have
enough icons so they fold, when you mouse over the launcher you need
to scroll to get to the bottom icon.
I caught myself scrolling with my mouse a lot since the launcher is
hidden most of the time by default (dodging windows) and I also can't
mouse over and expand it from bottom.

My suggestion to solve this problem is to unfold the icons on the
launcher in relation to the position of the mouse pointer.
That way icons would never leave the bottom or the top of the screen,
so no scrolling would be required.
Moving the mouse toward the bottom of the launcher, where there are
folded icons would cause them to unfold and at the same time the top
icons would fold one by one, so the icons don't move too much around.
Also, moving the mouse to the top of the launcher would always get you
to the first icon and moving to the bottom would get you to the last
icon.

What do you think? Is this something worth doing and are there other
problems with this approach that I haven't considered?