Dash - dragging a file outside of the Desktop Dash should close the Dash

Bug #764641 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
High
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Unity Community Hackers
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unity Community Hackers

Bug Description

If a user drags a file past the border of the Desktop Dash, the Dash should disappear. This allows the user to continuing dragging and then drop the file onto a window that was occulted by the desktop dash.

Desired resolution:

- The Dash should not close until the user drags a item *outside* of the Dash area
- This applies to all Dash Lenses, not just the File Lens

John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: udo
Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
milestone: none → alpha1
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Jorge Castro (jorge)
Changed in unity:
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers)
milestone: alpha1 → backlog
Jorge Castro (jorge)
tags: added: backlog
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

This appears to already be implemented in natty (with the latest unity 3.8.14-0ubuntu1~natty1). Or am I imagining things?

But see also bug 773892 which is not yet resolved.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

And it seems the current behaviour already implemented in natty actually solves this bug better than the "Desired resolution" in the description... ?

John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: onew
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Medium → High
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers)
Robert Carr (robertcarr)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → 4.20.0
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.18.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.18.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
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      (LP: #802527)
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      screen (LP: #802651)
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      (LP: #836325)
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      /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_minimized_windows
      is set to true (LP: #847967)
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    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in dee_model_get_tag() (LP: #840758)
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      (LP: #853807)
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      (LP: #854740)
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      has a dialog open (LP: #856030)
    - (oneiric) alt-tab UX doesn't work well on multi-monitor (LP: #855364)
    - Launcher shows on the primary monitor instead of the left most monitor
      (LP: #857668)
    - Keynav - pressing down key causes launcher items to jump up and down
      (LP: #858469)
    - Windows creep cross the screen with ALT+TAB (LP: #722830)
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      menu (LP: #781215)
    - no menu bar on top, compositing bug? (LP: #806358)
    - Launcher - a spread can accidentally be triggered during the 'dragging
      and dropping behind the Launcher' interaction (LP: #832988)
    - Impossible to navigate between panel menus when the mouse cursor is over
      the panel (LP: #834065)
    - Pressing alt on maximized window does show menu but not window controls
      (LP: #836274)
    - Application name drawn under Dash controls when window opens under Dash
      (LP: #838176)
    - Start ...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: reviewedbydesigno
removed: onew udo
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