Too far away from panel

[Danielle Foré]

Slingshot appears really far away from the panel. This is even more noticeable now that Tom's popover-indicators branch has landed in wingpanel. We really need to render the popover closer to the edge of the screen.

Screenshot attached.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

IMHO Tom's fake popovers are too far from the panel too.

[Anderson Lorencini (lorencini-brdev)]

Agreed with Sergey. They are all too far away from the panel.

[Lee Hyde (anubeon)]

Is it just me and my oft 'individualistic' system or has slingshot abandoned its 'trademark' pop-over styling (with the arrow point towards 'applications') all together in favour of a flat, gtk-menu style (see screenshot)? If so, is this a temporary glitch or a design decision?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

@Lee, you've a bug sir :p

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

@Lee, are you sure you got compositing enabled there? It looks like the fallback..

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Yes he does, look at transparency...

Either Slingshot cannot detect compositing support, or he uses a weird compositor like xcompmgr or e17. There also seems to be a race condition with compositing detection in Mutter.

[Lee Hyde (anubeon)]

Sorry for the late reply, for some reason I wasn't received e-mail updates on this bug.

In answer to @Tom, yes I do have compositing enabled, via compiz. I shall have to report this as a separate bug. :-)

[jmikelf (jmikelf)]

This is just a detail I've noticed, but it think slingshots and indicators's pop-over should be at the same distance from Wingpanel. If not, it is a bit inconsistent. A picture is better than a thousand words.

BTW, the "application" shouldn't be covered with blue when slingshot is launched, like what happens with the rest of the items of wingpanel? it's again about consistency, should i fill a bug in wingpanel?

Thanks, again, for this wonderfull project.

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

After a quick glance at code, it seems Slingshot doesn't draw the arrow itself, it just inherits the PopOver class. So I think this is a Granite bug...

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

On second thoughts, it's probably wingpanel's fault.

[swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't think that it is fixed.
This bug report is a better solution to this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-dock/+bug/1196013