Launcher icon highlighting should not switch off as soon the cursor moves after the app spread appears.

Bug #727902 reported by John Lea
22
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
High
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
7.2
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Bug Description

[Impact]
When dragging a file to an application with multiple windows open and the spread is triggered, any movement of the mouse switches off the selective highlighting and dimming of valid/non-valid drop receptacles.

[Test Case]
1) Open two windows instances of the same application (say firefox)
2) Drag a file from the file-manager or the desktop and hover the firefox icon
3) After one second the firefox icon is hovered, the spread will occur
4) Dragging the icon outside the launcher and in the spread area (both over a window or
   not) should keep the desaturated icons as they were before.

[Regression Potential]
Launcher icon might be not saturated again when exiting from spread.

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Description.

When a file is dragged and held over a application icon in the Launcher a spread of the app windows appear. The user can then drag and drop the file on to one of the windows to specify the window in which they would like the file to be loaded.

The bug is that after the spread appears, any movement of the mouse switches off the selective highlighting and dimming of valid/non-valid drop receptacles.

Desired behaviour

- The highlighting and dimming of Launcher icons should persist until the user drops the file.
- Note that the 'spread when a item is held over a launcher icon' behaviour seems to be broken in the Oneiric final freeze release (nothing happens).

Related branches

John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Fix Committed
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udt
Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Regular bug, not a design change request.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 3.6.6
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.6.6 → 3.6.8
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.6.8 → 3.8
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.8 → 3.8.2
David Barth (dbarth)
tags: added: ffe
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udo
Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.8.2 → ux-backlog-1
importance: Low → Medium
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
Jorge Castro (jorge)
tags: added: backlog
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

Reverted to confirmed because the 'spread when a item is held over a launcher icon' does not work at all in the Oneiric Final Freeze release

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
description: updated
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
tags: added: onew
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

@John Lea I think that the bug should not be set as confirmed...

Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

@andyrock; why should it not be set to confirmed? It is definitely a bug that has suffered further regressions in Oneiric and now does not work at all.

John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udp
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

It should not be set to confirmed IMHO. The spread on drag has been disabled in Ubuntu 11.10, but if we enable it now, we no longer have this bug. So it should be Fix Released or at least Invalid.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
Tim Penhey (thumper)
tags: added: exbacklog
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.2.1
assignee: Andrea Azzarone (andyrock) → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Andrea Azzarone (andyrock) → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
tags: added: dnd
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.2.1 → 7.2.2
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.2.2 → 7.3.0
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
description: updated
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