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I keep closing windows instead of opening the dash

Bug #825047 reported by Hernando Torque on 2011-08-12

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This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

I don't know if that's a matter of adaption, but right now I find myself closing (quitting) windows all the time when I just wanted to open the dash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,regex,compiztoolbox,move,place,networkarearegion,animation,resize,mousepoll,grid,session,vpswitch,workarounds,expo,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,snap,ezoom,unitymtgrabhandles,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Fri Aug 12 10:19:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110630)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2011-08-12:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (48.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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David Gomes (davidgomes) wrote on 2011-08-12:

#2

I think this is a matter of adaptation, the new Dash Button is in the launcher.

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2011-08-12:

#3

My issue is not adapting to a different position, but to be extremely careful not to overshot, because only a couple of pixels decide between opening something and closing something.

From my point of view a potential issue, but I'm a user without expertise in UI design, so... :-)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-08-17:

#4

This post[1] explains some of the things, it also says this part of Unity is expected to fully settle by 12.04 I think Opinion is the best status that we could give to this issue for now. There will definitely be user testing by Beta's we'll know the results then as those people would never had used unity before.

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

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-08-17:

#5

*[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/717

I got used to it quickly and have not closed a window by mistake, though I occasionally closed maximized windows mistakenly with the previous behavior, but its been not too long since I close window with the new location so time will tell.

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