New pop-up notification panel triggered by xfce4-display-settings blocks view and access
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-settings (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When launching xfce4-display-
This pop-up notification panel is positioned in the middle of the bottom of the screen on top of any other screen items.
1/ There the new pop-up notification panel blocks the existing Xubuntu Desktop panel from view and from access. Any buttons in the Xubuntu Desktop panel below the new notification panel are now invisible and inaccessible.
2/ The new pop-up notification panel is permanent until xfce4-display-
3/ The new pop-up notification panel does not adhere to the universal Desktop preferences settings for notifications that have been set in Applications Menu > Settings Manager > Notifications.
While the new Xubuntu Xfce display manager itself is surely a welcome an improvement, its associated new notification panel is seriously flawed and highly troublesome.
The quickest-fix temporary resolution of these three issues is simply to drop this new display pop-up notification panel altogether, because in itself it adds very little to the Screen Settings Configuration panel which triggers it. That gives time to work these issues out.
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System: xubuntu 13.10 32-bit fully up-to-date
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
This is certainly a useful improvement is you have many monitors, but it is also an issue as you have pointed out.
The best fix would just be to make it go beneath the panel, which shouldn't be too difficult. We could also investigate a different location, Making it an optional "identify" button and possibly partial transparency for it.