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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If this indeed changes, I will not be using unity as my desktop. 

With previous desktop environments, my cursor constanly touches the left side of the screen unintentionally and the appearance of hidden bars (whether Windows taskbar or unity launcher) are always interrupting my work when i don't want them to. 

not being able to put the Launcher on the right side of the screen   +   having a hidden Launcher appear anytime my cursor touches the left side of the screen   =   Unity being unusable for everyday desktop work environments.

Unless a setting change is afforded users who can specify the Launcher only show when the cursor touches the upper-left corner, this change is a huge mistake!


From: christian.mackintosh@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:44:20 +0400
To: sirius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] State of launcher items (folded/expanded) inconsistent on unhide

The launcher behaviour is supposedly changing to default to appearing 
when the mouse hits the left edge of the screen. Therefore under 
Hernando's case 1 the items would still immediately expand as the mouse 
would be directly over the launcher. Might I take this opportunity to 
spam bug #734946 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/734946 ) and 
suggest that the way to solve this is really just to re-write the 
launcher behaviour (maybe for oneiric?)



If the concertina effect was applied evenly to all icons, and only 
surrounding icons unfolded on mouseover, it strikes me that we would 
have a vastly more usable launcher: all icons would remain visible and it wouldn't be a pain to get to lower ones as they wouldn't get pushed off the screen as soon as the mouse went anywhere near them.

Thanks,



Christian Mackintosh


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:34 AM, sirius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <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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