Launcher - when hidden, shouldn't be revealed through corner hotspot

[Christian Giordano]

The top-left corner shouldn't work as hotspot to reveal the Launcher. The user should be able to trigger the revealing of the Launcher with the cursor only using the left edge of the screen.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

To clarify, quote from John Lea:

 "Basically the user has to push *past* the edge of the screen to reveal the Launcher, rather than it being on a time delay. So if you need to reveal the Launcher you can do so instantly, while at the same time reducing false positives from placing the cursor on the left edge of the screen. Apparently it is difficult to do this in X but Jason has a solution."

We shouldn't remove the top-left /disable edge option until this is actually working. Edge activation is a nuisance whenever you try to e. g. select text or click a widget on the left window edge for fullscreen applications.

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Please see also bug #825050 for a different opinion. :-)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

This bug is correct - the corner should no longer reveal the launcher,
it is now exclusively the close action.

Mark

[vassilis karamitros (ecatodarcus)]

Hello there,

i think that moving your cursor to the left side should be the default option but it has to be configurable as it was in 11.04. I am with the opinion that the launcher should be revealed when you place your cursor at the upper left (or another) corner because i don't place my cursor there many times.When i was in 11.04 i changed this option through CCSM. But now i cannot do that. Even if i change this option nothing changes.