I'm pretty annoyed at this personally. I love the 'dodge' feature of the launcher, I didn't find it confusing, it made sense that you'd always see it if the window wasn't full-screened. But I guess I've been using it for a couple of releases now, so I am used to it's functionality.
It's pretty stupid that the option is still a Toggle: On or Off. It'd be nice if they provided the three* options as a drop down in the Appearance settings, as there are many people like myself who prefer the dodge behaviour. It's just forcing people to use CCSM or other configuration tools - I personally use MyUnity which works really well and is a lot safer than CCSM. * There is a fourth option: the launcher is only hidden when the full-screen application is focused, so it'll appear above the full-screen app when a windowed app is focused. Not sure how popular this one is, but it would be worth including too... maybe. I'm also having issues with the sensitivity of the launcher - I keep resorting to pressing 'Super' to open it :) Thanks, ~Stephen On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Chris Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a heads-up on something we need to be aware of for Precise. Those that > aren't Alpha testing may not yet know that the launcher dodge feature has > been removed. Mark Shuttleworth's reply to a query on why this was done is > here: https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg07665.html > > The default behaviour is now to never hide, however the "always hide" > setting can be found in System Settings --> Appearance --> Behavior. > > Windowed applications now position to avoid the launcher initially, however > full screen apps are overlayed by the launcher. I think most new users will > change the behaviour to "always hide" as soon as they find out how to do it > because of this. > > I can't fault the logic, but it feels broken now that I've finally gotten > used to the dodging launcher. > > The method to reveal the launcher is not to 'push' against the left edge. > There's a setting for the sensitivity of this however it doesn't appear to > actually change anything on my machine. Setting the sensitivity to max does > not appear to make the Launcher appear any easier. No doubt this is still > being worked on. > > Chris > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin http://stephen.rees-carter.net/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
