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[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/06/2011 10:11 PM, Remco wrote:
> For your use case the always-visible setting is probably the best.

In graphics applications, the canvas area can never be large enough. 
There tend to be panels and bars for the huge number of tools and 
option, so there really is no space for a permanent Launcher.

The Launcher also happens to be very colorful and busy-looking, making 
it a distraction that becomes especially annoying if you work on and 
have to judge graphics.


> The "move the screen to the right" behavior might be an acceptable
> solution, too.

That would mean that the tool icon you aimed at moves away from the 
pointer. It would save you the time it takes to move the pointer back to 
the right to make the Launcher disappear, to then carefully go back left 
again to get to the icon without touching the edge. But this at the cost 
of a likely disorienting shift of almost the entire screen, while still 
not being able to just throw the mouse to hit an icon in minimum time.

It really does come down to that the Launcher and often used target 
areas in application windows should not share a screen edge.


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