Comment 11 for bug 703804

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Omer Akram <email address hidden> wrote:
> oops, I wrongly duplicated a few bugs. now I know Expo is not Scale.
> though scale would need an offset as well.
>

Indeed. I have some experimental work which would do this and uses the
same layout engine as the alt-tab, but it was too late after Beta 2 to
get this into the distro, but it will be in for P, as it's a fairly
trivial change.

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> Title:
>  Integration issues with expo plugin and unity shell
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
>  New
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  This is a known issue by the unity team themselves, just reporting
>  this bug so I can track the issue.
>
>  We need to tweak the unity shell somewhat so that the expo view
>  doesn't look so ugly. Also it might be necessary to include a few
>  distro patches to expo:
>
>  1) We need to redecorate maximized windows (and hide the buttons in the shell view) when the expo plugin is triggered
>  2) We need to always make sure that the launcher is shown, and it should IGNORE moving windows for the intellihide case
>  3) We need a distro patch to the expo plugin to make it offset by the launcher size.
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