Unity

launcher runs away when you try to move over it

Bug #749837 reported by Martin Pool
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-2d
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The current auto-reveal behaviour for the unity launcher is a bit elusive and tricky until you realize what's going on.

To reproduce, in current natty:

put a window near the left side of the screen, so the launcher moves away
mouse over the right hand side of the ubuntu button in the top left, so that the launcher just starts to appear
when the launcher's most of the way out and you can see the button you want, move down towards it
the launcher jumps away!

what you have to do is move the mouse all the way to the left while keeping it over the ubuntu button, and only then move it down

what (perhaps) should happen: if the launcher has started to come back, but is not yet all the way out, and the mouse moves down staying underneath the ubuntu button, it should stay visible, or perhaps move further out if the mouse moves further left. it should only snap back if the mouse moves back out to the right of the launcher area.
if

Tags: needs-design
Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - launchpad is elusive when auto-hidden
+ launcher runs away when you try to move over it
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)
tags: added: needs-design
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

marking as incomplete for unity bug as its waiting for design feedback.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

This behaviour is to allow the user to get behind the launcher. The issue here is that it is non-reversible. The correct behaviour is for the launcher to slide back out if the user moves the cursor out of the Launcher area. This resolution is already in Launchpad and will hopefully land for Natty, so I am closing this bug as a dupe.

Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

Woops, the comment above about this issue already having a resolution scheduled and being a dupe is incorrect. Improvements to the launcher reveal functionality is something we will look at in 11.10, however it is too late to start exploring Launcher reveal changes for Natty. Bug status changed to 'won't fix' for natty.

Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Invalid → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Is this really "won't fix" permanently, as the bug status currently says, or just won't fix for natty. I really think this ought to be fixed eventually; it is not a nice experience at all.

Revision history for this message
Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

updating based on john's comment: it can be open for ubuntu, but not targeted to natty (and it's not)

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

@Martin: we have some script syncing the state to get a possible coherence between design and all unity task, please do not revert this.

The new interaction will be tracked in a separate bug I think by ayatana-design.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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