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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What happened to the option to prevent the mouse-pointer from being able to reveal the launcher?

Isn't there supposed to be a setting for this in System Settings > Appearance > Behavior?

Latest Beta is only showing Left Corner or Left Side options. Where the "None" setting?

> From: shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx
> To: nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Thoughts on the top left corner? Can it be done better or prettier?
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:00:52 +0000
> 
> Something has been bugging me about unity ever since the the behaviour
> of the window buttons was changed to hide with the global menu.
> 
> That thing is the top left corner of the desktop:
> 
> <a href='http://postimage.org/image/5m0uf8n5n/' target='_blank'><img
> src='http://s17.postimage.org/5m0uf8n5n/Screenshot_at_2012_03_05_20_24_22.jpg'
> border='0' alt="Screenshot at 2012 03 05 20 24 22" /></a>
> 
> With the default setup of launcher always showing and a maximized
> window, that top left just looks odd to me.
> When the window buttons were visible, the window title and global menu
> lined up with the maximized window and everything looked normal.
> Since the behaviour was changed it is like that left part of the menu
> bar is overhanging the window and no longer looks part of it, if that
> makes sense.  It just looks terribly ugly to me.
> Although it has no direct affect on usablity, I just find it incredibly
> distracting and I just cannot take my eyes away from the area.
> 
> I have added a second screenshot which shows the launcher icons at their
> smallest size and the window buttons visible.
> Again, this looks odd in the way the buttons overhang and make things
> look odd again.
> 
> <a href='http://postimage.org/image/7oak8h20n/' target='_blank'><img
> src='http://s7.postimage.org/7oak8h20n/Screenshot_at_2012_03_05_20_25_40.jpg'
> border='0' alt="Screenshot at 2012 03 05 20 25 40" /></a>
> 
> I'm not sure what the alternatives are but I would be interested to hear
> other people's thoughts on this?
> I cannot help but feel such a visual glitch (for want of a better
> phrase) would never be allowed in other major environments (Windows, OS
> X, KDE Gnome 3 etc).
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