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[Christopher Townsend <christopher.townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was a conscious decision to maximize a window in a different
workspace if >50% of the window is in a different workspace.  I believe
Design felt that if a user makes a decision to put over half a window in
another workspace, that window is really intended for that workspace.

This is solely a Compiz issue and will remove the Unity tasks.  I think
there are other bugs in Compiz roughly about this issue, but I haven't
looked for them yet to duplicate this bug.  In the meantime, I'm also
going to make this a wishlist item as we should think about making this
behavior configurable as different users could want different behaviors.

** No longer affects: unity

** No longer affects: unity (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: compiz
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: compiz
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  Maximize Window Bug - Using Workspaces

Status in Compiz:
  Triaged
Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The code that gets initiated when a window is maximize is flawed in
  regards to which workspace it targets for maximization.

  When a window becomes maximized it should always maximize to the
  workspace "where the mouse-cursor was at" at the time that the
  maximization was initiated. Yet, in Unity, the windows manager will
  maximize to a different workspace if a certain portion of that window
  is outside the bounds of the current workspace.

  To easily reproduce this undesired behavior:

  1) Enable Workspaces:
  System Settings > Appearance > Behavior > Enable Workspaces

  2) Drag any maximizable window (of any application) to the bottom of
  the screen, so that its title-bar is still visible on the current
  workspace, but a fair portion overflows into the underneath-workspace.

  3) Maximize the window.

  Result: It will maximize the window to another workspace than the
  workspace you were in at the time of the maximization.

  Watch the video posted in this bug:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/utopic/+source/remmina/+bug/1370014

  A direct link to the video:
  http://youtu.be/wKGLff7HhS8

  In that video, at the beginning, if I were to have maximized that
  window, it would send it to the bottom (wrong) workspace. Because of
  that fact, you can see how much trouble it took to achieve the desired
  result of maximizing it in the currently focused workspace.

  Although that is a different bug, you can see how much that bug would
  have benefited if the Window-Maximization code was based on the
  workspace "where the mouse-cursor was at" at the time of maximization.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.3+14.04.20140826-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Feb  4 09:18:46 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-23 (73 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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