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Unhide launcher is not possible when a menu is open

Bug #910065 reported by markba on 2011-12-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #872334: Launcher - Moving pointer to the far left of the screen fails to reveal the Launcher if a menu is open. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

When a menu is open, either an app menu or an indicator menu, unhiding the laucher by pushing the mouse cursor to the left side, is not reacting. A user has to close the menu by using <Esc> or click on the menu area (again). Also, using the <Super> does not do anything when a menu is open.

In my opinion, unhiding the laucher or using the super-key should have the highest priority, thus closing any open menu.

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote on 2011-12-31:

This would break design; a small mouse movement leftward when an appmenu is open from the top global menu bar, could result in the menu closing.

Marking opinion; feel free to discuss why such a change would be good.

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

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markba (mark-baaijens) wrote on 2011-12-31:

I do not agree with the fact that a user could unintentionally open the launcher. Although this *is* a problem with the launcher (for that I've changed the launcher revealing time from 0.15 to 0.4 seconds), this is however not a problem in this particular case, I'll explain.

When a user has opened a menu, normally by mouse, he will also use the mouse to actually choose a menu item: so the mouse cursor is always in the neighbourhood of the menu area. But when he decides to switch program (and thus neading the launcher), he intentially moves the mouse to the left side. The distance between the menu area and the launcher activation area (the left side) is that large, that this cannot be done unintensionally.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-01-02:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 872334, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.