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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock package

Mouse scrollwheel switches workspaces when mouse against the left edge of screen

Bug #1719706 reported by Nathan Haines
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Didier Roche-Tolomelli
Artful
Fix Released
Low
Didier Roche-Tolomelli

Bug Description

In artful when logged in with the 'ubuntu' GNOME session with the mouse pointer on the leftmost edge of the screen, the scrollwheel scrolls through the available workspaces. The Desktop team says this is not the desired behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock 0.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 26 14:23:53 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-15 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170912)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nathan Haines (nhaines) wrote :
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Nathan Haines (nhaines) wrote :

The fix is available here: https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/issues/605#issuecomment-332315256

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
Will Cooke (willcooke)
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu Artful):
assignee: nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks)
tags: removed: rls-aa-incoming
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Didier said this behavior was intentional.

https://plus.google.com/+DidierRoche/posts/NqJw9dkyCea

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Oh I think I misunderstood the issue. I think it's supposed to switch workspaces when scrolling over the Show Applications button, not the entire left side of the dock.

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Nathan Haines (nhaines) wrote :

Right. At the Ubuntu Rally in NYC, everyone seemed to think that it was nice to have a quick way to switch resources, but that the entire left edge of the screen triggering this behavior (even when specific icons were highlighted) was non-intuitive.

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Michele Gaio (michele684) wrote :

As of last upstream commit in master

https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/commit/8cbfa9836efff3c05b293df8775ac42ab9affd0e

which you can easily cherry-pick for the ubuntu-dock branch, this confusing behaviour has been disabled.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock - 0.7

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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (0.7) artful; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick 2 upstream fixes:
    - Maximized windows get resized when returning from screensaver
      (LP: #1719409)
    - Mouse scrollwheel switches workspaces when mouse against the left
      edge of screen (LP: #1719706)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:30:10 +0200

Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu Artful):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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