Position marker [while rearranging launchers] needs to be pretty

[Hernando Torque]

Binary package hint: unity

When dragging a launcher out of the launcher bar, there's a white line that follows the icon movement (up and down). If this is supposed to be an indicator of where the launcher will be placed on button release, it should receive some visual polishing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.32-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 31 18:58:42 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this makes me remind of the launcher video at design.canonical.com (maybe
the line might need a different color) too bad my maverick system broke real
hard to test :(

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Hernando Torque <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627541/+attachment/1532285/+files/Dependencies.txt
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> White line while rearranging launchers
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627541
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity
>
> When dragging a launcher out of the launcher bar, there's a white line that
> follows the icon movement (up and down). If this is supposed to be an
> indicator of where the launcher will be placed on button release, it should
> receive some visual polishing.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: unity 0.2.32-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Aug 31 18:58:42 2010
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: unity
>
>
>

[Vish (vish)]

No that is not a bug, it is the intended design.
The line is an indication/marker of where the icon will be present when dropped.

But maybe the marker could use some better design than just looking like an artifact/glitch in the graphics.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Yes, there's polish that's required to make it feel purposeful instead
of accidental :-)

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

I'm guessing something like the "fade-out" lines we use as separators in the search-result-view, but brighter (with more contrast against the background). We'll see what Otto can come up with.

[Vish (vish)]

sabdfl has blessed this, so raising importance from wishlist.. ;-)

[Vish (vish)]

A new bug has been filed for this, by the Design team, for a more refined indicator : Bug 661097 , marking as dup.
Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.