Another potential would be to prevent windows from occupying the
left-most 5px-10px of the screen. The Firefox back button is a
stickler for this launcher behaviour, but try resizing it so that it
is almost maximised, except leave a small space on the left hand
side. This really helps to prevent the launcher popping out when not
wanted IMO.
Matt
On 03/11/11 05:49, James Jenner wrote:
On 3 November 2011 14:06, Elias K Gardner <zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
When you have to interact close to the left edge of a window
the launcher can be accidentally activated blocking
interaction on that part of the open window.
The launcher can be made not to popout when the cursor hits
the screen side by installing CompizConfig Settings Manager
and changing the Unity plugin's reveal mode on the behavior
tab to "none".
I think this is one setting that should be somewhere in the
system settings out of the box. It is maddening to have to
move your cursor out to close the launcher then carefully
back.
Another alternative would be to have a button that when
pressed keeps/closes the launcher (just thinking out loud her
not sure its a good idea, seams to duplicate the super key
dash functionality a little).
An alternative would be to have a visual interactive control on
the launcher that changes it's state of popout and to not popout.
A pin is the obvious analogy though in reality some form of marker
(eg. a small circle or an arrow or similar) would do the trick, as
in to be consistent with the styling of Unity. Obviously a
keyboard shortcut would apply as well.
With such an option when the launcher is hidden, the control to
stop it from popping out would need to be visible, so some thought
would be needed as to where this control sits, how it appears and
how a user interacts with it (both via keyboard and the mouse).
I personally think such an option (to stop it popping out
automatically) isn't such a bad idea.Maybe instead of a "don't
popout" control, it could be a "hide launcher" control.
Just some thoughts. For me personally it hasn't been a problem and
I have no need for such functionality, but then I have a very
large screen and very rarely work full screen within an
application. However I can see how this could be required for
certain types of environments and work patterns.
Cheers,
James.
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