Small, skinny rectangle left when no applications are pinned or running

Bug #1228397 reported by Christopher Kyle Horton
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Pantheon Dock
Fix Released
Low
Rico Tzschichholz
Plank
Fix Released
Low
Rico Tzschichholz

Bug Description

I initially posted about this on Google+ here: https://plus.google.com/u/1/109509247327281928543/posts/eWmmzAiFbCg

To reproduce, just unpin all applications from the Plank and close them all. You will be left with a tiny rectangle just a couple pixels wide at the bottom of the screen. In this state, it's not really useful and it more closely resembles some kind of graphical glitch.

I'm guessing that either the Plank should disappear completely in this situation, or else look like it's still supposed to be there.

This has been seen on elementary OS Luna, with full updates as of September 18, 2013. The normal Pantheon environment was used, and the laptop is a Fujitsu Lifebook.

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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote :

This is the same screenshot from the aforementioned post, attached here for convenience. Look at the bottom of the screen within the red circle (may need to zoom in).

Revision history for this message
Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote :

In terms of Plank, we add a 'plank' icon to the dock which we intend to always be there. So this situation is not supposed to arise.

Elementary I guess does not have such an icon.

Changed in plank:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) wrote :

I guess it would make sense to provide a item-sized placeholder as a drop-point in this case.

Changed in plank:
milestone: none → isis-beta1
Changed in pantheon-dock:
milestone: none → isis-beta1
Changed in plank:
milestone: isis-beta1 → none
Changed in pantheon-dock:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: New → In Progress
Changed in plank:
status: New → In Progress
milestone: none → 0.6.0
assignee: nobody → Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Changed in pantheon-dock:
assignee: nobody → Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in plank:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in plank:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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