Area to scroll launcher too small

Bug #1207996 reported by Dražen Lučanin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Opinion
Undecided
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Opinion
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When the launcher has more icons than fit the screen, the icons get accordion-squished. To progressively expand them, one has to move the pointer to an area on the bottom that is very small. This small area results in very delicate cursor aiming being required and often leads to accidentally moving too low and speeding the action up too much.

This is even worse when one wants to expand the launcher up, as the expand-up area is very close to the global menu and if the cursor accidentally crosses over to the global menu, the launcher position resets.

Expected behaviour - the area to progressively expand the lower part of the launcher should be longer - e.g. 1/4 of the whole launcher height. Same should be true for expanding the launcher up. This would result in the speed progression being much more robust, as the cursor has to move over a larger area to increase the speed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,neg,mousepoll,resize,wall,move,snap,place,gnomecompat,grid,compiztoolbox,session,vpswitch,regex,imgpng,animation,workarounds,unitymtgrabhandles,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sat Aug 3 15:01:15 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (288 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-30 (94 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Dražen Lučanin (kermit666) wrote :
description: updated
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Opinion
no longer affects: unity
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Opinion
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