Re: [Ayatana] State of launcher items (folded/expanded) inconsistent on unhide

[Christian Mackintosh <christian.mackintosh@xxxxxxxxx>]

The launcher behaviour is supposedly changing to default to appearing 
when the mouse hits the left edge of the screen. Therefore under 
Hernando's case 1 the items would still immediately expand as the mouse 
would be directly over the launcher. Might I take this opportunity to 
spam bug #734946 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/734946 ) and 
suggest that the way to solve this is really just to re-write the 
launcher behaviour (maybe for oneiric?)

If the concertina effect was applied evenly to all icons, and only 
surrounding icons unfolded on mouseover, it strikes me that we would 
have a vastly more usable launcher: all icons would remain visible and it wouldn't be a pain to get to lower ones as they wouldn't get pushed off the screen as soon as the mouse went anywhere near them.

Thanks,

Christian Mackintosh

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:34 AM, sirius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <sirius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I'm using up-to-date Natty with Unity 3.8.4 and I'm seeing a problem with the way items are presented upon launcher unhide. If I'm not not mistaken, then there currently are three ways to unhide the launcher:

   1. Moving the mouse in the top-left corner BFB (home button):
      The launcher unhides with the launcher items expanded, putting
      half of my launcher items off-screen. When moving the mouse
      outside of the BFB, the launcher items fold.

   2. Pressing and holding the Super key:
      The launcher unhides with the launcher items folded, which
      expand a short time later, showing the shortcut overlays.

   3. Pressing Alt + F1 to initiate keyboard navigation:
      The launcher unhides with the launcher items expanded
      and the first launcher item highlighted.

It's my understanding, that when I manually unhide the launcher, I also want to see its _whole_ content (which is the case with disabled autohide). What I would expect to see:

   Case 1:
   Don't expand the launcher items on BFB-mouseover. They'll still
   expand on launcher-mouseover, which IMO is closer to launcher
   interaction than touching the BFB.

   Case 2:
   Don't expand the launcher items when holding down the super key.
   The shortcut overlays for lower launcher items are unreadable
   either because the items are folded or the items are off-screen,
   so I don't see the point in expanding them.

   Case 3:
   Only expanding the launcher items after the first action (key down).

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Hernando Torque

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