I also don't like the hotspot in the upper left (I'm always hitting it when
switching Chrome tabs, and I also moved my close/min/max to the left).  If
I had a choice, I'd move it to the bottom-left.  I tried using this
extension to move it to the top-right:
http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/ (movehotcorner)

... but it doesn't quite work in Linux Mint 12, so I deactivated it.


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looping in [email protected]
>
> Ignore previous message. Got the wrong address
>
> On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Looping in [email protected]
> >
> > On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Calum Benson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> On 20 Nov 2011, at 19:51, Bill Wohler wrote:
> >>
> >>> One gentleman noted on the Debian mailing list that the current hot
> spot
> >>> location is annoying because whether you have a full-screen window, or
> a
> >>> window in the upper left-hand corner, an application's File menu or
> >>> browser's back button is very close by. This is a big problem. I
> >>> accidently hit the hot spot dozens of times a day as well, so his post
> >>> moved me to forward his idea to you. He suggested moving the hot spot
> to
> >>> the lower left, which makes sense since the hot spot for the
> >>> notifications in the lower right.
> >>
> >> This certainly sounds like an annoyance. Of course, the reason the
> top-left corner was chosen is because that's where the Activities menu is,
> which makes the hot corner behaviour more discoverable than it might be
> otherwise. So I'm not sure how the designers would feel about simply moving
> it to a different corner, but that's not to say there isn't a good solution
> to be reached.
> >>
> >> To ensure it gets best attention, I would suggest either filing a
> report against gnome-shell at bugzilla.gnome.org, or sending your
> concerns to the [email protected] mailing list instead, where more of
> the gnome-shell designers and developers hang out.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Calum.
> >>
> >> --
> >> CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer     Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd.
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> >>
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> >>
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> >
>
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> *
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