Manage the fullscreen application case

Bug #591189 reported by David Barth
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This bug affects 22 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Application Menu Indicator
Invalid
Wishlist
Matthew Paul Thomas
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
7.2
In Progress
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

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David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
milestone: none → maverick-alpha-3
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
milestone: maverick-alpha-3 → none
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in appmenu-gtk:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in appmenu-gtk:
assignee: nobody → Cody Russell (bratsche)
Kalle Valo (kvalo)
Changed in appmenu-gtk:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
sds (sds-gnu) wrote :

this is not a "wishlist".
plenty of full screen apps are now totally broken, including freeciv and gvim launched from the command line.
user-built apps (e.g., emacs) have the menus where they have always been, not in the mac-style bar.
this is a welcome inconsistency which shows that it is possible to rebuild apps without the breakage.

Changed in appmenu-gtk:
assignee: Cody Russell (bratsche) → Extended Canonical DX team (dx-team)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
enz (markus-enzenberger) wrote :

@sds (comment #1): I also thought first that this is a bug, not a wishlist item, because it breaks so many applications and might leave the user in a situation where he doesn't know how to leave fullscreen mode.

But arguably, this should be fixed in the applications because they should not rely on the fact that the menu bar stays visible in fullscreen mode. For example, the human interface guidelines for Gnome 2 even recommend that the application hides the menu bar in fullscreen mode (see http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.6/menus-menubar.html).

But it would still be nice if Unity had some discoverable way to make the menu bar visible again, as long as there are many applications that rely on the menu bar to leave fullscreen mode with the mouse.

Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Extended Canonical DX team (dx-team)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
milestone: none → 7.3.3
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
importance: Undecided → Medium
no longer affects: appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: appmenu-gtk
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.3.2+15.10.20150910.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.3.2+15.10.20150910.1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone <email address hidden> ]
  * Add unit tests for unity::lockscreen::DBusManager.
  * Add/Update tests for gnome session manager.
  * Do not allow shutdown when screen is locked. (LP: #1460626)
  * Make sure we update the maximized window when "show
    desktop"/"restore desktop". (LP: #1485559)
  * Merge patch from https://launchpadlibrarian.net/216192448/llvm-
    fix.patch (LP: #1491555)
  * Merge patch from https://launchpadlibrarian.net/216276242/low-gfx-
    override.patch (LP: #1491913)

  [ Andrea Azzarone <email address hidden> ]
  * Properly hide decorations when on "Show Desktop" mode. (LP:
    #1485073)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * UnityScreen: force shell to be on top when there's a window
    fullscreen and we've a menu open. (LP: #591189)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:37:46 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
tags: added: rls-w-incoming
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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