"Select windows when the mouse moves over them" is incompatible with global menu bar
Bug #615859 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayatana Design |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
John Lea | ||
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Canonical Desktop Experience Team | ||
Natty |
Won't Fix
|
Wishlist
|
Canonical Desktop Experience Team |
Bug Description
The global menu bar used by Unity is basically incompatible with the "Select windows when the mouse moves over them" option in "System" > "Preferences" > "Windows" (gnome-
So, whenever Unity is being used with the global menu bar:
* the "Window Selection" section of the "Window Preferences" window should be hidden
* the "Select windows when the mouse moves over them" option should be treated as if it was off.
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team) |
description: | updated |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: udo |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Fix Released |
tags: | added: udp |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
tags: |
added: reviewedbydesignp removed: udo udp |
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It's not a trivial change to determine when to ignore the config key at runtime: there are many modules involved afaict: the window managers, the gconf configuration repository, the control-center when it's running.