Setting ‘Menus discovery duration’ to 0 does not disable menu discovery

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]

[Impact]
When you set to 0 the 'Menus discovery duration' in CCSM, the menus still show up, very briefly.

[Test case]
1. CCSM -> Unity -> Menus
2. Set 'Menus discovery duration' to 0
3. Start a new application that has menus
4. Menus should not show up briefly when the application starts

[Regression potential]
Nothing known.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Sorry if I'm uninformed, but what does the "Menus discovery duration" do?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

That is the time in when menus are shown in the menu bar when an application is opened.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I confirm :)

[Jared Contrascere (jcontra)]

I can confirm, but I need to ask-- shouldn't the expected result of changing this setting to 0 set the discovery time to unlimited, thus disabling menu discovery?

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/CsNbJCgd/45-bug-942962-setting-menus-discovery-duration-to-0-does-not-disable-menu-discovery

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.5.0+16.10.20160901.2-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.5.0+16.10.20160901.2-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Disable menu discovery animation if MenusDiscoveryDuration is 0.
    (LP: #942962)
  * Redraw fake decorations on window resize. (LP: #940470)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * InputMonitor: add an unity class that monitors XInput2 events and
    converts them to XEvent
  * EdgeBarrierController: use InputMonitor to get the barrier events
    instead of relying on its implementation
  * DecorationsMenuLayout: use input monitor for menu scrubbing (LP:
    #1614597)
  * PanelView: use InputMonitor to track menu events
  * LockScreenPanel: use InputMonitor events instead of mouse polling
    for menu scrubbing
  * MenuManager: add support for mouse trackers with triangle algorithm
    support (LP: #1618405)
  * PanelView: scale gradient refinement properly
  * PanelService: don't allow to deactivate menus if they've been opened
    too shortly
  * WindowButton: properly partially unmaximize a window when
    middle/left clicking in the restore button (LP: #1616136)
  * CMake: move data and setting files in proper folder, define shared
    libdir variables

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:59:15 +0000

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Adolfo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.0+16.04.20160906-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.4.0+16.04.20160906-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.4.0+16.04.20160906-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * SwitcherView: always disable animations when in lowgfx mode (LP:
    #1602784)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * When locked discard damages from windows below lockscreen. (LP:
    #1605180)
  * DecoratedWindow: display unmaximize button if the window is
    vertically or horizontally maximized (LP: #1608480)
  * Make sure the switcher detail view is properly scaled. Also scale
    the xy_offset to make sure the switcher and launcher do not overlap.
    (LP: #1605256)
  * Close session dialog on first ESC. (LP: #1521116)
  * Filter out scrolling envents for FilterExpanderLabel. (LP: #1604632)
  * Disable menu discovery animation if MenusDiscoveryDuration is 0.
    (LP: #942962)
  * Redraw fake decorations on window resize. (LP: #940470)
  * Use compiz::Window::serverNext instead of compiz::Window::next in
    IsWindowObscured as the latter can be outdated just after
    scale/spread terminates. (LP: #1614116)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * DecoratedWindow: avoid deferencing an invalid shadow texture ptr,
    and split functions (LP: #1608464)
  * DecoratedWindow: display unmaximize button if the window is
    vertically or horizontally maximized (LP: #1608480)
  * DecorationsForceQuitDialog: make CSS selectors work with gtk 3.20
  * UserAuthenticatorPam: ensure pam_handle_ is null initialized and
    don't proceed if not set (LP: #1611668)
  * DecorationStyle: set css name for Gtk 3.20
  * OverlayRenderer: properly decorate launcher/panel when the launcher
    is at the bottom (LP: #1611694)
  * OverlayRenderer: don't use rotated textures, just rotate them at
    rendering time
  * SpreadWidgets: add container for spread filter and new spread
    decorations (LP: #1283314)
  * WindowButton: properly partially unmaximize a window when
    middle/left clicking in the restore button (LP: #1616136)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:17:39 +0000

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

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