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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not aware of anything like that. 

And in my experience (as a Netbook user), it's easier and better to run everything fullscreen - on a 10" Netbook, there's not much space. So my Natty launcher is on autohide. 

Cheers, 
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:59, nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No. I was thinking of when the Launcher is set to "Never Hide" or "Dodge Window" or "Dodge Active Window." Basically, it would be for users who like the Launcher to always be present. But there are times when a maximized window is needed, so the user hits ctrl + alt + zero. However, more room is still needed (maybe user is on a small netbook screen and the webpage requires so many pixels to get a decent presentation--I've read of people having this problem when using Ubuntu Netbook Edition). So user hits the keyboard shortcut to hide the Launcher. At a later point user can hit the keyboard shortcut to unhide the Launcher again. This way user is not dependent on the mouse to "push" the Launcher out of the way to get full screen display for a maximized window. Having to "click-grab" a window and move it around is kinda slow and inefficient when compared to just tapping a quick keyboard shortcut. Plus it allows people who prefer to have the Launcher "Never Hide" still be able to hide it in situations where a webpage is not displaying correctly. The user may not want the Launcher to "Dodge" windows but may need the ability to hide Launcher sometimes for display reasons.
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> > CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > From: james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] create a keyboard shortcut for hiding/unhiding the Launcher?
> > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:12:36 -0400
> > To: nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> > If it's set to autohide in CCSM, you can get it to pop up again by hitting the Super key. (Windows Key). Is that what you're talking about?
> > 
> > Cheers, 
> > James Gifford
> > http://jamesrgifford.com
> > 
> > On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:03, nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Has this been considered? Seems it would be helpful for keyboard oriented folks to be able to hide/unhide the launcher via a keyboard shortcut. I can see this being used a lot in combination with the maximize-window command ctrl + alt + zero (especially on small displayed netbooks).
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