Turn launcher autohide function on by default

Bug #683787 reported by András Bognár
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Jason Smith
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

We have now the autohide function for the Unity launcher.
I think it's time to use that feature by default.

Or we wait for the perfect global menu support (application name and window buttons on the top panel... etc.)?

I think it's too easy to show the launcher, when it's hidden. The buttons on the window border (currently in full screen) are too close to the Ubuntu button and we need to think about those people, who are remove the indicator-appmenu in the future. Maybe the GNOME Shell solution is worked here to. We need three function:

1. If I want to click on the Ubuntu button anywhere, the launcher is show up.
2. If I move the mouse cursor to the left edge of the screen, or exactly to the left top corner, the launcher show up.
3. Hotkey solution.

András Bognár

description: updated
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 683787] [NEW] Turn launcher autohide function on by default

Auto-hide can get turned on by default as soon as the Unity team think
it's working sweetly. As for the issues y ou raise, such as how the
launcher is brought to view, they are defined in the spec and will be
implemented shortly I'm sure.

 status confirmed

Mark

Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote :

Jason, now that the first cut of intellihide has landed, feel free to switch on autohide-by-default when you feel it's ready.

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 3.2.8
status: Confirmed → Triaged
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.2.8 → 3.2.12
Revision history for this message
András Bognár (bognarandras-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I think, it's fixed with Unity 3.2.12.

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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