[launcher] Does not reveal when hovering over the left edge of the screen

[pauljwells]

Running on powerpc, the launcher only responds to hovering the mouse over the top left area with the ubuntu icon. it does not respond to moving the mouse to the left screen edge. Changing the option in the settings/launcher menu doesn't make any difference

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Same behaviour in unity-2d on x64. I guess it's actually just meant to work like that and is not a bug at all.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Nope, the new default of Unity 3D is to un-hide on mouse touching the left edge. Maybe this is an architecture-specific issue?

Unity 2D may not have implemented the 'unhide on mouse touching left edge' yet.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Unity 2D works the same on my PPC and x64 computers: hover anywhere over the ubuntu button and the menus show. On 3D the edge and top left corner work properly depending on the setting. On PPC I can't test 3D obviously :-/

It would make sense for 2D and 3D to have as many similarities as possible, maybe even to both read the setting registered by System Settings / Launcher and Menus, which is clearly only used by 3D at the moment.

FWIW I prefer the way the 2D menu works, but the 3D way is more similar to other OSs

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is indeed a discrepancy with unity-3d, not intended, it should be fixed.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Reference to the design bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/754583

[very (very-concerned-person)]

This bug affecting me too, I move the mouse to the left and the launcher does not appear, I must hover over the top left icon to see it appear.

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

I built Aurelien's code just now and can confirm it works on my PowerPC G5
Thank you!

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

I would just comment that the 'dwell' time is different (longer) for the edge push display than for the top left corner. Maybe these could be set to the same before the code is merged?

[pauljwells (pauljwells)]

Or maybe just disable the top-left corner selection?

[Johny (juanbertinetti)]

Same behaviour.
I think it should be fixed soon because it results annoying to move the mouse to the top left corner when it could be sufficient with moving it only to the left...

[LiohMoeller (liohmoeller)]

This also happens on amd64 with unity 3d, sometimes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-2d - 3.8.8-0ubuntu1

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unity-2d (3.8.8-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * new upstream release:
    - [spread] Corruption when switching workspaces after windows have been
      moved to other workspaces (LP: #760787)
    - [launcher] launcher won't fully paint, corrupted view (LP: #764690)
    - [launcher] icons no longer active after an incomplete drag (LP: #768812)
    - drag from dash to launcher (LP: #662616)
    - Don't create windows over the launcher (LP: #688816)
    - [launcher] Does not reveal when hovering over the left edge of the
      screen (LP: #760537)
    - UIFe: Launcher - update launcher reveal interaction to make it more
      accessible to first time users (LP: #754583)
    - [launcher] Trash icon should indicate when it has deleted elements
      (LP: #715611)
    - When windows open for the first time they should not hide the launcher
      (LP: #723878)
    - double clicks should be disabled on bfb/Place launcher icon/double key
      press (LP: #766776)
    - [dash][launcher] Should use real transparency when a compositing manager
      is running (LP: #794042)
    - [dash] Thunderbird icon is pixelated (LP: #767115)
    - [panel] Hovering the mouse cursor over the BFB reveals the current
      window’s menu (LP: #793403)
    - [panel] Hovering the mouse cursor away from the appmenu applet doesn’t
      hide the menu (LP: #793406)
    - unity-2d: does not parse QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM env var (LP: #791852)
    - Cannot drag applications from dash to desktop (LP: #756614)
  * debian/control:
    - unity-2d-panel recommends the indicator, not unity-2d
    - appmenu-gtk and appmenu-qt are already provided by indicator-appmenu
    - remove other meaningless recommends
  * debian/libunity-2d-private0.install:
    - install everything in Unity2d private directory

  [ Florian Boucault ]
  * debian/unity-2d-launcher.install:
    - do not install usr/lib/qt4/imports/UnityApplications/ anylonger as all of
      UnityApplications features have been moved to the Unity2d QML plugin
      installed by libunity-2d-private0
  * debian/control:
    - unity-2d-places and unity-2d-spread do not depend on unity-2d-launcher.
      All they need is now in libunity-2d-private0.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:14:18 +0200