No. It comes down to meaning this group of users should set a different unhide behavior than the default. You can it such that the launcher will only unhide when you hit the corner, which is an acceptable solution for this use case.
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On 11/06/2011 10:11 PM, Remco wrote:
For your use case the always-visible setting is probably the best.
In graphics applications, the canvas area can never be large enough. There tend to be panels and bars for the huge number of tools and option, so there really is no space for a permanent Launcher.
The Launcher also happens to be very colorful and busy-looking, making it a distraction that becomes especially annoying if you work on and have to judge graphics.
The "move the screen to the right" behavior might be an acceptable> solution, too.
That would mean that the tool icon you aimed at moves away from the pointer. It would save you the time it takes to move the pointer back to the right to make the Launcher disappear, to then carefully go back left again to get to the icon without touching the edge. But this at the cost of a likely disorienting shift of almost the entire screen, while still not being able to just throw the mouse to hit an icon in minimum time.
It really does come down to that the Launcher and often used target areas in application windows should not share a screen edge.
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