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["C. Cooke" <ccooke-launchpad@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:28:44PM +0100, supernova wrote:
> Hi to all. Did you ever think to add the cairo dock effect to the
> icons in unity launcher? I mean a zoom effect on passing of the mouse?
> I don't want to give Unity a osX personality. Just a thought about
> design.
> 

This one came up recently on this list. It's not currently possible to
implement such a feature due to patents held by Apple.

(There was a bug report closed due to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/751941 )

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