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Can't get contextual menu for maximized windows

Bug #668196 reported by David Prieto on 2010-10-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #656519: Window management - Alt+Space window accessibility menu should not be accessible by right clicking on a window title bar. Edit Remove

This bug affects 11 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ayatana Design	Won't Fix	Undecided	John Lea
Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

When you maximize a window, then right-click its titlebar (in this case that would be the panel) you don't get the contextual menu with the "always on top, move to workspace, always in active workspace..." options, so, for example, the only way to send a window to another workspace is to unmaximize it, then right-click the titlebar and choose the menu item.

I think empty areas on the panel should be right-click sentitive.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-10-29:

There are some need for design input there.

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
status:	Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote on 2010-10-31: Re: [Bug 668196] Re: Can't get contextual menu for maximized windows

Yes, the non-menu portion of the panel should be treated like the
maximised window titlebar. There is an existing bug about being able to
drag it away from the panel (restoring on the way) and double-click,
this is a continuation of the same idea.

Mark

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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote on 2010-11-02:

Example Edit (49.9 KiB, image/png)

This raises another issue; let's suppose I have two windows:

- Window A (unmaximized, focused, at the front).
- Window B (maximized, unfocused, at the back).

When I want to reach B, I usually try to click its titlebar (see the example) to bring it to the front. Of course it does nothing: at that moment, the panel looks like B's titlebar but is actually A's toolbar.

My question is: in a situation like the one I describe, should the empty space in the panel behave as B's titlebar even though the occupied space is A's toolbar?

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote on 2010-11-02:

On 02/11/10 08:45, David Prieto wrote:
> My question is: in a situation like the one I describe, should the empty
> space in the panel behave as B's titlebar even though the occupied space
> is A's toolbar?

We'll need to test this to see how it feels. Could go either way imo.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-02-12:

setting to confirmed as Mark stated it should be a proxy for the title bar in the window.