Launcher - unable to reveal Launcher when a window is full screen

Bug #1001255 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
High
John Lea
Unity
Triaged
High
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

To Reproduce:

1. Set the Launcher to autohide

2. Fullscreen a window e.g. press F11 in Chromium

3. push the pointer against the left edge of the screen to reveal the Launcher

What currently happens: nothing

What should happen: the Launcher is revealed.

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Desired Solution:

- When a window is in full screen mode, pressing against the left edge of the screen should reveal the Launcher.

- This should work irrespective of the Launcher reveal settings e.g. the user should be able to reveal the Launcher in this manner even if the Launcher is set to be 'always displayed'.

- This also applies to the Menubar as soon a Menubar autohide is implemented.

Tags: udp
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
tags: added: udp
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Adam Brandizzi (brandizzi) wrote :

In fact, the Launcher is presented but it appears behind the full screen window. You can note it e.g. when you reproduce the bug with a full screen Gnome Terminal window with transparent background.

John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

this bug is about revealing the launcher on hitting the edge while bug 708163 is about reveal on Super key. Should we merge them both?

Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Walt Corey (commwrc) wrote :

This may actually be the same resolution as 1606358. I did see one launcher icon 'vibrate' so, yes, the launcher is actually off screen. Also,

http://askubuntu.com/questions/802767/16-04-1-upgraded-vm-cannot-access-unity-bar-on-left-nor-move-desktop-windows

references this same problem. Does the status of fix committed, which this has, indicate the fix will be in 16.04.2 or in the next general periodic software update? I would like to upgrade my 14.04 production system as 16.04 I feel is faster but this bug makes 16.04.1 unusable for me.

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