Dash - reflections should be fixed on the centre of the viewport, *NOT* the centre of the entire page including occluded areas

Bug #838925 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
High
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Gord Allott
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Gord Allott

Bug Description

Dash reflections should be fixed on the centre of the viewport, not the centre of the entire page including occluded areas.

This bug can be seen easily by opening up all the category headers in a large set of search results and scrolling to the bottom. For the search results at the very bottom of the scrollable page you will see that the distance their shadows are offset is too large.

Desired solution:

The lightsource that casts the shadows should always be centred in the middle of the viewable dash area. Therefore as the results scroll, the shadows should change position in real time. The search results in the four corners of the visible area should always have the largest shadow, the search results in the centre of the visible are should have the smallest shadows.

The shadows must always be calculated relative to the position of the search results in the *visible dash area*.

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John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
importance: Medium → High
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: onew udo
summary: - Dash - reflections should be fixed on the centre of the viewport, not
+ Dash - reflections should be fixed on the centre of the viewport, *NOT*
the centre of the entire page including occluded areas
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Gord Allott (gordallott)
milestone: none → 4.18.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.18.0 → 4.20.0
Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.20.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.20.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release + cherry-pick:
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PluginClassHandler<UnityWindow,
      CompWindow, 0>::get() (LP: #835259)
    - dash does not scroll down during keyboard navigation (LP: #852506)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in _XFreeEventCookies() (LP: #851472)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref() (LP: #847512)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in nux::WindowCompositor::MouseEventCycle()
      (LP: #831678)
    - compiz and X can disagree on the stacking order (LP: #845719)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::dash::LensView::OnResultAdded()
      (LP: #855252)
    - CCSM crashes Unity (LP: #861643)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::addWindowStackChanges()
      (LP: #862115)
    - Touch - When dragging a window with a 3 touch, dragging to the top
      should show the maximize gesture preview. (LP: #750316)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() (LP: #750386)
    - Launcher - Spread should not affect the state of window (LP: #764673)
    - [UIFe] Add system setting icon to Launcher (LP: #764744)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() [Merely unchecking the Unity
      plugin is enough to crash Compiz...] (LP: #823386)
    - Launcher - does not hide if revealed from top 24px of the left edge of
      the screen (LP: #835989)
    - Clickable areas of previously active window remains on 'Show Desktop'
      (LP: #836325)
    - Cannot search for some apps in Dash (LP: #837075)
    - Dash - Search box cursor not responding correctly to focus (LP: #839704)
    - Multi-display: Application menu only showing on primary screen
      (LP: #845212)
    - Ellipsized values in size filter (LP: #851359)
    - (oneiric) dash result expansions don't display icons (LP: #854615)
    - run the wrong command if enter is hit before the view is refreshed
      (LP: #856205)
    - Java application windows cut-off/truncated/not displayed properly
      (LP: #857201)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in sigc::signal_base::impl() (LP: #831769)
    - Minimizing a window should switch focus to the windows underneath it
      (breaks restore) (LP: #859885)
    - Ratings filter allows ratings > 1.0 (LP: #861255)
    - Serious Unity problem stuck in spread when dragging icons back to the
      dash (LP: #862045)
    - Must use hardware keyboard to perform search for applications in Unity
      (LP: #739812)
    - Files lens should also search Downloads (LP: #748915)
    - The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864 or
      lesser width (LP: #765338)
    - Dash - dragging a file outside of the Desktop Dash should close the Dash
      (LP: #764641)
    - Text in Dash search text box overflows and doesn't crop with longer
      strings; RtL input starts in wrong place (LP: #834765)
    - Where the average background colour is either very light or dark, adjust
      this value to darken/lighten in order to preserve readability
      (LP: #837993)
    - Dash does not resize when I connect to an external display and mirror
      displays (LP: #83813...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

Very cool to see this in action, thanks for getting this beautifully finessed! ;-)

tags: added: reviewedbydesigno
removed: onew udo
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