Unity

clicking launcher icons during workspace switching goes to wrong workspace

Bug #1094871 reported by Andreas E. on 2012-12-31

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

During workspace switching, the user sees an overview of ~4 workspaces side by side to the launcher. When clicking a launcher icon (application) instead of a workspace, it switches to the currently active workspace, as is the sensitive area of the workspaces extends to the area of the launcher.
The misbehavior is especially then obvious when the launcher icon is not next to the active workspace.

Expected behavior: Since the launcher is not grayed out, the launcher icons should work as normal and switch to the workspace and focus their corresponding application. (It worked like that in 12.04)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Mon Dec 31 12:57:10 2012
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Andreas E. (andreas-e) wrote on 2012-12-31:

launcher_workspace_switching.png Edit (75.8 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (23.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (39.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (171 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

description:

updated

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-01-06:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote on 2013-01-06:

At first I could not reproduce this, but now I can make it happen, at least sometimes. I think the difference may have been that with the Launcher always visible, I didn't see the bug. Letting the Launcher hide and appear on demand, I can hit the bug sometimes. That might make a little sense, if it's harder to assign the click properly, when the Launcher's screen area isn't static.

Is your Launcher set to hide, Andreas?

Thanks.

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Andreas E. (andreas-e) wrote on 2013-01-06:

Yes, it autohides. I corrected the bug description: The workspace switcher does not switch to the application of the clicked launcher icon but to the currently active workspace.

description:

updated

GiaBao Phu Truong (2908bg) on 2013-09-27

information type:	Public → Public Security
information type:	Public Security → Public

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-07-23

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote on 2015-10-12:

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS, I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there.

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added: desktop-bugscrub-triaged

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