window close/minimize buttons disappear from global menu for maximized windows with an open popup window
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
If I open (for example) Synaptic non-maximized and tell it to reload or apply updates, an update window appears for potentially a considerable length of time. With Synaptic non-maximized, it is possible to minimize both windows by clicking on the minimize icon in the main Synaptic window.
However, with Synaptic maximized, the minimize/close window buttons disappear from the global menu when the child window is opened. Because it is a modal popup window, you cannot switch the focus back to Synaptic. This means you can no longer minimize Synaptic, which is a regression.
A workaround would be to allow the application to be minimized from the unity launcher, eg by making it (like every other launcher/dockbar) minimize a focused application when you click on its icon (eg as requested in bug #733349), or by adding a right-click menu option to minimize the application.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
Date: Sat Apr 16 06:17:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-13 (2 days ago)
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summary: |
- window close/minimize buttons disappear from gobal menu for maximized + window close/minimize buttons disappear from global menu for maximized windows with an open popup window |
Needs design discussion.