dx-packages team mailing list archive

[Taihsiang Ho <taihsiang.ho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

gdb shows the if statement in launcher/ApplicationLauncherIcon.cpp goes to

398         Focus(arg);

instead of

404           Spread(true, 0, false);


the Spread method in line 404 is
what we expect to issue when clicking the launcher icon.
When we set one of the window as "Always on Top",
the statement goes go the Focus method in line 398.

testing on 13.10 with
unity 7.1.2
7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1


NEXT: why it goes to Focus instead of Spread method

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX
Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu.
Matching subscriptions: dx-packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1131385

Title:
  "Always on top" prevents application spread from working

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Invalid
Status in Compiz:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Consider you have many windows of the same type open. One method of switching between them is clicking the launcher icon which reveals the application spread. Now you can choose between the windows. This is how it should be. 
  However, the design idea was, if the windows are marked "Always on Top" there is no need for an application spread, as they are always on top. This is a bug and needs to be changed, because it does not consider minimized windows and therefore prevents switching to those windows. 
  If you have windows of the same application open, some of them minimized and ALL non-minimized windows are marked as "Always on top", the application spread does not work anymore, clicking the launcher does nothing.  Whether the minimized windows are marked always on top or not does not matter. 
  So the simplest way to reproduce  this bug would be:
  1.) Open two windows of the same application.
  2.) Minimize one and mark the other (non-minimized) as "Always on top". 
  3.) Try to switch to the minimized window using application spread

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1131385/+subscriptions