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[Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another potential would be to prevent windows from occupying the 
left-most 5px-10px of the screen. The Firefox back button is a stickler 
for this launcher behaviour, but try resizing it so that it is almost 
maximised, except leave a small space on the left hand side. This really 
helps to prevent the launcher popping out when not wanted IMO.

Matt

On 03/11/11 05:49, James Jenner wrote:
> On 3 November 2011 14:06, Elias K Gardner <zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     When you have to interact close to the left edge of a window the
>     launcher can be accidentally activated blocking interaction on
>     that part of the open window.
>
>     The launcher can be made not to popout when the cursor hits the
>     screen side by installing CompizConfig Settings Manager and
>     changing the Unity plugin's reveal mode on the behavior tab to "none".
>
>     I think this is one setting that should be somewhere in the system
>     settings out of the box. It is maddening to have to move your
>     cursor out to close the launcher then carefully back.
>
>     Another alternative would be to have a button that when pressed
>     keeps/closes the launcher (just thinking out loud her not sure its
>     a good idea, seams to duplicate the super key dash functionality a
>     little).
>
>
> An alternative would be to have a visual interactive control on the 
> launcher that changes it's state of popout and to not popout. A pin is 
> the obvious analogy though in reality some form of marker (eg. a small 
> circle or an arrow or similar) would do the trick, as in to be 
> consistent with the styling of Unity. Obviously a keyboard shortcut 
> would apply as well.
>
> With such an option when the launcher is hidden, the control to stop 
> it from popping out would need to be visible, so some thought would be 
> needed as to where this control sits, how it appears and how a user 
> interacts with it (both via keyboard and the mouse).
>
> I personally think such an option (to stop it popping out 
> automatically) isn't such a bad idea.Maybe instead of a "don't popout" 
> control, it could be a "hide launcher" control.
>
> Just some thoughts. For me personally it hasn't been a problem and I 
> have no need for such functionality, but then I have a very large 
> screen and very rarely work full screen within an application. However 
> I can see how this could be required for certain types of environments 
> and work patterns.
>
> Cheers,
> James.
>
>
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