Auto-hide function doesn't work well, avant freezes or does not reappear
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Awn |
Fix Released
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High
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Michal Hruby |
Bug Description
First my specs.
I'm running AWN on an Intel Mac Mini and on an Intel Macbook, I also run it on an Asus A6T laptop, all of these computers are running Ubuntu Feisty full updated with compiz fusion. Since I don't like to mess with the code, I run AWN from a precompiled source, this one:
deb http://
That's because the package from Trevino is really buggy in my experience and it even shows graphics issues on the bar. This source I use is often updated with all of the new releases of AWN, so I consider it reliable.
My problem is related to the auto-hide feature, it simply doesn't work well and shows a lot of defects, in all of the versions I tryed, these defects had never been fixed. Listing them:
1) When it hides, if I move my mouse on the bottom of the screen to make it appear again, sometimes, awn just doesn't appear but I occasionally see the icons jumping!
2) If AWN is hiding and I move again my mouse over it, maybe during the animation to close or open a window, while AWN is transforming and moving it often happens that all the icons disappear, the bar remains freezed and shown (Not hidden) and only defreezes if I open a new app or I close one. That is, only if I induct to the bar a change in the icons it shows.
3) When AWN is hidden, I cannot drag and drop an icon over it because it won't automatically appear if my mouse is dragging an icon. To have it appear I must have a normal mouse, without any icon, and sometimes it doesn't appear anyway (See point 1). Now that there's a recycle bin applet it would be really usefull to be able to drag and drop something from anywhere to the trash in AWN, like I do in OSX, but if awn doesn't reappear I cannot do it so the trash applet becomes useless unless I use awn without autohide and in my opinion AWN without autohide is useless. Because it's too big and on an on, a personal problem, I know, I can't use OSX's dock of course if it doesn't autohide. So this is maybe the nastiest of all of the bugs I found in AWN.
It looks like the autohide feature is really buggy. Is it normal or do you think it is related to the package I use? That's because I have this problem in every single PC I tryed AWN on.
Changed in awn: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in awn: | |
milestone: | 0.3 → 0.2.6 |
assignee: | nobody → njpatel |
Changed in awn: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Are you still having these problems? At least that drag and drop issue with autohide is now fixed in the latest bzr revision.