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[Jason Smith <jason.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a technical follow-up. This is all trivially changed in a couple
lines of code thanks to some excellent work from Didrocks. Whatever is
decided upon can be rapidly implemented.

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:34 +0200, sirius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm using up-to-date Natty with Unity 3.8.4 and I'm seeing a problem 
> with the way items are presented upon launcher unhide. If I'm not not 
> mistaken, then there currently are three ways to unhide the launcher:
> 
>      1. Moving the mouse in the top-left corner BFB (home button):
>         The launcher unhides with the launcher items expanded, putting
>         half of my launcher items off-screen. When moving the mouse
>         outside of the BFB, the launcher items fold.
> 
>      2. Pressing and holding the Super key:
>         The launcher unhides with the launcher items folded, which
>         expand a short time later, showing the shortcut overlays.
> 
>      3. Pressing Alt + F1 to initiate keyboard navigation:
>         The launcher unhides with the launcher items expanded
>         and the first launcher item highlighted.
> 
> It's my understanding, that when I manually unhide the launcher, I also 
> want to see its _whole_ content (which is the case with disabled 
> autohide). What I would expect to see:
> 
>      Case 1:
>      Don't expand the launcher items on BFB-mouseover. They'll still
>      expand on launcher-mouseover, which IMO is closer to launcher
>      interaction than touching the BFB.
> 
>      Case 2:
>      Don't expand the launcher items when holding down the super key.
>      The shortcut overlays for lower launcher items are unreadable
>      either because the items are folded or the items are off-screen,
>      so I don't see the point in expanding them.
> 
>      Case 3:
>      Only expanding the launcher items after the first action (key down).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hernando Torque
> 
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