Multimonitor, Launcher - When the Launcher is set to autohide and 'Sticky edges' are turned off, 'Launcher Edge Stop Overcome Pressure' seems to be broken when revealing the Launcher

[John Lea]

[Test Case]
1. Have a multi-monitor environment (at least 2 monitors enabled)
2. Enable Launcher auto-hide in g-c-c
3. Make sure you have the launcher set to appear on all monitors
4. Disable sticky-edges
5. Move your mouse from the right-most screen to the screen to the left
   -> Verify that there is some pressure needed to move from one screen to another, caused by the fact that the Launcher auto-hide is enabled

[Regression Potential]
Trivial change, no other regression potential.

Original description:

Currently if the sticky edges are disabled, they are *all* disabled. However what should happen is that if 'sticky edges' is disabled AND the launcher is set to auto-hide, the sticky edges should remain active on a single edge (where the launcher is) from a single direction (the direction the pointer has to travel to reveal the Launcher)

What currently happens:

When the Launcher is set to autohide and 'Sticky edges' are turned off, 'Launcher Edge Stop Overcome Pressure' seems to be broken when revealing the Launcher. It is switched off on all edges

What should happen:

When the Launcher is set to autohide and 'Sticky edges' are turned off, the 'Launcher Edge Stop Overcome Pressure' should continue to be active *only* as part of the launcher reveal action. e.g. if the user moves the pointer from the right to left to reveal the Launcher it should be triggered and the monitor edge, but if the user moves the pointer from left to right (or down to up, or up to down) across a monitor border it should not be triggered.

[Ilan Tal (ilan-tal)]

I am experiencing a similar problem. I have a dual monitor setup. If I turn on sticky edges I can't move the cursor from one monitor to another. Thus sticky edges MUST be off for me.
I would like to use the auto hide feature for the launchers (I need all the real estate I can get). However if I enable auto hide I can never get the launchers back, no matter how close to the edge I put the cursor. Things might be different if I used sticky edges, but I simply can't use it with dual monitors.

Ilan

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

I cannot reproduce this bug.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/5.14.0-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

With unity from -proposed, auto hide on, and sticky edges off, I get resistance going right-to-left whether I am doing so to get to the left monitor, or to open the launcher, or indeed if I'm carrying a window with me. This seems counter intuitive, but the section "What should happen:" seems to indicate that's intended behaviour?

[John Lea (johnlea)]

@popy; *If the launcher is set to auto-hide*, there needs to be resistance to reveal the Launcher, even if sticky edges are turned off. But this resistence should only be in the right to left direction on the left edge of the monitor where the launcher is located, and not when the user is dragging a window. When sticky edges is turned on there should be resistance on all edges of the monitor, both when a user is moving the pointer and when they are dragging a window.

The proposed merge should fix one issue, which is the 'Launcher edge stop overcome pressure' (a sub-component of of the set of behavours that add edge resistance) is currently missing from the Launcher reveal when sticky edges are turned off. Could you open another bug for the resistance being triggered when the user drags a window? (this should not happen if sticky edges are switched off).

thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.14.0-0ubuntu1

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