[PATCH] [RFC]Shell: Hide panels when compositor has a top fullscreen surface.

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 10:02:45 PST 2012


Juan Zhao wrote:

> Only when un-fullscreen window over fullscreen window, the panels will be shown
>    https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/nFoverF.png 
> <https://gitorious.org/dataforuse/dataforuse/blobs/master/nFoverF.png>

Does anybody have any actual documentation or tests that show that this 
behavior is wanted?

This prevents the fullscreen window from putting any useful clickable 
areas, such as the menubar, where the panels may obscure it, since the 
user cannot choose them without first raising the fullscreen window.

In addition if the panels obscure all the control areas and leave only 
an area where clicks will do something (such as the canvas in a painting 
program) then it will be impossible for the user to re-raise the 
fullscreen window with a click without changing the document as well.


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