Application indicators should autohide when there are too many

Bug #1335514 reported by Adnan
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

I recently moved from windows 7 to ubuntu. one of the things that is really strange to me is the system tray / notification area / main menu bar "indicator icons" do not auto hide in to a sub menu like windows xp, vista, 7, & 8. It looks like a windows 2000 system tray with icons taking over the entire bar /panel.

I for one like to have a lot of indicator icons which i only use sparingly. this feature /bug is especially annyoing for me because the main menu bar in ubuntu doubles as a universal menu and title bar for all apps /windows (when maximized) and it also contains the main menu and (maximize, minimize, close) buttons leaving even less space.

I use the window title bar for many things like click, draging and dropping, maximizing / restoring windows, right click "menu item close", so since i cant see the menus and the indicator icons take up all the space i end up either clicking on the menu or on one of the indicator icons when i try to do one of the said actions.

In addition if i remove the items from main menu bar then it might be difficult for me to display them if i need them which might require some commands in terminal.

Please create an auto-hide (sub menu) for indicator icons.

system info: ubuntu 14.04 LTS files 3.10.1

Tags: trusty
Adnan (adnan-rauff)
affects: stopmotion (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
summary: - Ubuntu unity status / notification bar launcer icons auto-hide (sub
- menu)
+ Ubuntu unity system tray / notification area / main menu bar launcher
+ icons auto-hide (sub menu)
Adnan (adnan-rauff)
description: updated
description: updated
Adnan (adnan-rauff)
summary: - Ubuntu unity system tray / notification area / main menu bar launcher
+ Ubuntu unity system tray / notification area / main menu bar indicator
icons auto-hide (sub menu)
description: updated
tags: added: indicator
removed: launcher
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: Ubuntu unity system tray / notification area / main menu bar indicator icons auto-hide (sub menu)

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Kris (kmbroga) wrote :

I really hope something will be done about it, because I hate this 'feature' of non-hiding indicators since unity was introduced...

Revision history for this message
Nikolay_Miroshnichenko (nikbox) wrote :

Yes, it's very annoying. My case: I cannot hide slack notifications, so I have to close slack or try to be "notifications-blind".

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in ubuntu:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
summary: - Ubuntu unity system tray / notification area / main menu bar indicator
- icons auto-hide (sub menu)
+ Application indicators should autohide when there are too many
affects: ubuntu → unity (Ubuntu)
tags: added: trusty
removed: auto bar hide icons indicator menu notification status sub
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