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Dragging many applications from the dash to the launcher causes unusable space on the launcher

Bug #983048 reported by coversnail on 2012-04-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #772986: Launcher - Unity launcher single missing/invisible/blank icon. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Confirmed	High	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

I can reproduce this bug every time I try but it is slightly random as to when it actually occurs.

If I open the applications lens and drag applications to the launcher to pin them there eventually one will not pin itself to the launcher and will cause an area of unusable space which remains unti the system is rebooted.

To do this I drag installed applications to the lowest available space on the launcher (above the workspace switcher) and keep doing this with multiple applications in a row, when the launcher is so full that it has to scroll to reach the bottom eventually one dragged application will not pin and cause an empty space which cannot be used or removed. Hovering over the space with a mouse bring up the tooltip "Drop to add application".

This does occur everytime I try, but I can't yet determine an obvious cause.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04
Unity version: 5.10.0-0ubuntu3

The icon size in the launcher has been set to the smallest size in the system settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.10.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Apr 16 13:46:32 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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coversnail (coversnail) wrote on 2012-04-16:

Screenshot of unusable space Edit (774.8 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (27.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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coversnail (coversnail) wrote on 2012-04-16:

2nd Screenshot of another case of unusable space Edit (771.9 KiB, image/png)

RajaSekharReddy Genupula (genupulas) on 2012-04-16

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-04-19:

Thank you for your bug report, I can confirm that, it happens often when doing dnds from the dash to the launcher

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-04-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 772986, so it is being marked as such. 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.