On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Petko <pditc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok , here's my last stand on the topic : > (just before that - Mark, your guidance is appreciated , it's good to see > you on the lists , despite your ,I bet, heavy schedule) > > Making this work in two points : > 1. Have an obvious caption "Launcher behaviour" on the left side and a > falling menu or a bullet point type thing (I forgot what they're called) on > the right with the choices : "always visible" , "auto hide" , "dodge > windows" . > 2. Have the sidebar hide and appear if dodge is selected and there's no > window to make it hide. > > That way the user will with little statistical error associate the changed > option with the launcher . And since to choose the option you have to read > it (again with little statistical error) , there is little chance someone > wouldn't understand the type of behaviour. > > I could overview the possible ways a user encounters the option ,and gain > some more proof , but for tl;dr reasons I'll skip that . > > One more thing : having three choices is a pretty standard situation , so > that also has a minimizing effect on the choice paralysis phenomena . > > P.S.: > > On 02/09/2012 01:38 AM, Owas Lone wrote: >> >> I'm already loving it in Precise. I think I can live with auto-hide. >> > You don't have to - use MyUnity . I'm pretty sure (and I'm praying to the > unity gods,a.k.a. the developers) that the functionality will stay . It'll > just have to be configured with an external tool . > > Petko
I have CCSM and dconf-editor and I'm running daily builds, the *CODE* which implemented intelihide was removed from trunk a few hours ago. It's not that the option was removed, the actual implementation was scrapped. Anyways, I think I've already stopped missing it. :) -- Owais Lone he...@owaislone.org http://www.owaislone.org -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
