Quicklist can't be correctly hidden

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

Hiding a dynamic quicklist is something that can't be done always well.

For example, if you have a launcher icon with a quicklist doing something like:
 - quicklist.property_set_bool (Dbusmenu.MENUITEM_PROP_VISIBLE, false);
or
 - Unity.LauncherEntry.get_for_desktop_id ("anydesktop_file.desktop").quicklist = null;

Doesn't work. However those are two different issues, in fact while the first one is caused by a problem in unity (that should not show a hidden quicklist), the second one is related to libunity that doesn't allow to reset the quicklist by setting it to a null value.

The only working way to hide a quicklist actually is the one of hiding the single menu items, however that (also due to a unity bug) doesn't hide also the quicklist separator (in the case that the icon launcher doesn't has also a static quicklist).

You can see this issue in the attached screenshot running a code like the one pasted at http://paste.ubuntu.com/683963/

All these issues could be also tested with this vala code: http://paste.ubuntu.com/683980/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libunity - 4.0.2-0ubuntu1

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libunity (4.0.2-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - [dash] Apps lens shows no result by default (LP: #834571)
    - Quicklist can't be correctly hidden (LP: #843425)
    - Python PyGI support broken (LP: #844779)
  * debian/control,
    debian/libunity5.symbols => debian/libunity6.symbols,
    debian/libunity5.install => debian/libunity6.install:
    - makes the necessary tweak for ABI/API breakage
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:01:04 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.14.2-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.14.2-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - unity crashed with AttributeError in reset_unity_compiz_profile(): 'str'
      object has no attribute 'get_string' (LP: #809378)
    - Trying to minimize Unity Dash to make it fit on a 1024x768 screen makes
      Unity freeze and then, after I log out by killing X, never start again
      (LP: #839200)
    - unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in main_arena() (LP: #817477)
    - UIFe: Panel - Indicators should be orderable regardless of their parent
      IndicatorObject (LP: #823061)
    - 'Show Desktop' fails to hand focus to desktop (LP: #836315)
    - Dash - Functionality of top left close, minimise and maximise/restore
      window decorations is confused (LP: #838875)
    - unity-panel-service Leaks Memory (LP: #779185)
    - Missing lens shortcuts (Super-A, Super-F) (LP: #834078)
    - Unity window switcher takes over <alt> key (LP: #835699)
    - update assets for window buttons (topleft) with dash opened
      (LP: #836655)
    - Where the average background colour is either very light or dark, adjust
      this value to darken/lighten in order to preserve readability
      (LP: #837993)
    - Applications don't have priority over other results (LP: #839518)
    - task tray icons are misaligned and badly sized (LP: #839354)
    - UIFe: Dash - Shape and positioning of most of the elements in the Dash
      need adjustment (LP: #841945)
    - Cannot drag applications from dash to desktop (LP: #756614)
    - systray icons still visible on each desktop in expo mode (LP: #759129)
    - transparency on unity panel broken (LP: #827012)
    - Window buttons and application menu don't autohide if left edge is
      touched (LP: #835637)
    - 'Filter results' should be right indented as in the mockups(and unity-
      2d) (LP: #838118)
    - window title should not appear until cursor leaves the menubar
      (LP: #838759)
    - Window title is not redrawn on leaving global-menu from buttons
      (LP: #839488)
    - In the dash, main text field can not be edited, except at the end
      (LP: #840862)
    - Quicklist can't be correctly hidden (LP: #843425)
    - After double clicking on the panel to restore a window, the menus won't
      be hidden on mouse-out (LP: #838021)
    - After restoring a window the application title doesn't fade-out and it
      goes below the menus (LP: #838479)
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest libunity-dev for ABI/API break, nux
  * debian/rules:
    - bump shlibs, remove tweak for garantuing the version as the ABI
      is considered stable until finale now.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:07:50 +0200