Fullscreen + unity difficult to exit, unless you're particularly observant
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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banshee (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: banshee
I don't generally use banshee as a media player, so this may be it's default behaviour regardless of UI. I've only tested under Unity. If it does the same under other UIs I'd still argue that it's a bug.
Open Banshee, choose media to play.
Go to view, click fullscreen.
Now imagine with no clues how you're supposed to get out of fullscreen. If you were observant enough you might have seen the 'F' key indication beside the option, but most people aren't observant.
If you can get in to a state by using a mouse, you ought to be able to get out of it using just the mouse. There are no icons or options anywhere in the Banshee window itself to drop out of full screen mode, and the menu bar is gone along with the top bar, and the unity dock (doesn't appear when you go to the far left)
I managed to get out of it because I hit F11 on the basis that is what works on some browsers, but that's highly dependent on people being aware of the keyboard shortcut, and I'd argue most people aren't.
Attached is a screenshot of full screen banshee, in-case it's useful.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 1.9.6-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 7 23:27:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Just double checked under Ubuntu Classic on Natty. Looks like it is Unity specific. In non-unity environments the menu bar is attached to the window, even under full screen.