Compiz

Spread/Scale (Super-W) keybinding is inconsistent

Bug #1076838 reported by Christopher Lee
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Compiz
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
Compiz 0.9.11.0
compiz (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

If there are no active application on the workspace Super-W does not start the spread and the key-presses aren't caught and ignored.

This is inconsistent and could lead to confusion.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in compiz:
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → 0.9.9.0
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
MC Return (mc-return) wrote :

I think this is quite intentional. What should Spread show without windows ?

Revision history for this message
Christopher Lee (veebers) wrote :

I agree that it doesn't make sense to start Spread (as there isn't anything to show).

But shouldn't the key events be caught and ignored by compiz instead of being passed on? (i.e. Super-W on an empty desktop will start the nautilus file search (bottom right-hand corner a text-box appears).

This is inconsistent, a keybinding might sometimes pass on the key events and others not.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in compiz:
milestone: 0.9.9.0 → 0.9.9.2
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in compiz:
milestone: 0.9.9.2 → 0.9.10.0
Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Changed in compiz:
milestone: 0.9.10.0 → 0.9.10.2
MC Return (mc-return)
Changed in compiz:
milestone: 0.9.10.2 → 0.9.11.0
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