Ayatana Design

Dash - Shape and positioning of most of the elements in the Dash need adjustment (Part 3)

Bug #852030 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
Critical
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Gord Allott
Unity 4.18.0
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The shape and positioning of most of the elements in the Dash need adjustment. There are many many of these very small adjustment issues, so rather then open 25+ separate bugs they are listed as bulletpoints.

Before reading the list, open the following image: https://chinstrap.canonical.com/~johnlea/11_10/dash-layout-problems.png

In this image the signed off design is laid on top of the current implementation with 80% opacity. Look at where elements are placed relative to where they should be placed according to the design, and also look at the different shape of elements compared to the design.

When fixing these issues, keep taking screenshots of the implementation and matching them up to the design (as done with the Dash_layout.png) to check how the layout is progressing. When this process stops showing variations this bug is resolved ;-)

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List of positioning issues:
- The Category Headers are positioned wrong (too far right, too low)
- The search box is positioned wrong (centre should align with the center of the BFB, should start a few px to the left)
- There is too much space between the individual icons in the search result
- There is too much space below each category header
- The desktop dash box is much too large (both height and width)
- "Filter results" header is positioned wrong (should be right and slightly up)
- The individual search filter category titles and the "All" button is too high relative to the other filter buttons

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List of shape issues:

- The font size of category header titles is too large
- the spacing between the search result icons is too large
- "Filter results" is the wrong font size and weight
- The 'rating' stars are the wrong size
- the dividers in between the filter results categories are missing
- the 'All' button's shape is too narrow and too high (should be the same height as the other filter buttons)

Related branches

lp:~gordallott/unity/dash-layout-stuff
Mirco Müller (community): Approve
Diff: 198 lines (+39/-28)
8 files modified
plugins/unityshell/src/DashSearchBar.cpp (+1/-1)
plugins/unityshell/src/DashView.cpp (+7/-3)
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesGroup.cpp (+22/-16)
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesGroup.h (+1/-0)
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesStyle.cpp (+3/-2)
plugins/unityshell/src/ResultRendererTile.cpp (+2/-3)
plugins/unityshell/src/ResultViewGrid.cpp (+1/-1)
tests/standalone_dash.cpp (+2/-2)
lp:~ubuntu-desktop/unity/ubuntu (Merged)
lp:ubuntu/oneiric/unity
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: onew udo
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

@John: does your bug include this? https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/851066

Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Gord Allott (gordallott)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → 4.18.0
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

probably the status would need resetting when UIFe is requested.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Gord Allott (gordallott)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
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 - 4.18.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.18.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Screen corruption when resuming from suspend/hibernate (LP: #676166)
    - unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in bamf_factory_view_for_path()
      (LP: #764024)
    - Dash and launcher appear underneath windows (LP: #805087)
    - unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
      (LP: #811401)
    - [Oneric] unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()
      (LP: #817691)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::FilterBar::RemoveFilter()
      (LP: #845732)
    - crash on closing a window (LP: #856015)
    - Cannot open a window that starts iconified (LP: #732997)
    - Launcher - When useing Alt F1 launcher keyboard navigation, Launcher
      should not scroll until top or bottom of Launcher is reached
      (LP: #765749)
    - Stacking problem when switching between apps with multiple windows
      (LP: #802527)
    - Pull panel to de-maximize window occasionally not working in a secondary
      screen (LP: #802651)
    - Window under Dash gets focused if it opened later (LP: #830730)
    - Clickable areas of previously active window remains on 'Show Desktop'
      (LP: #836325)
    - A minimized window 'remains' behind on the desktop if
      /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_minimized_windows
      is set to true (LP: #847967)
    - a11y support on Unity is broken (LP: #851103)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in dee_model_get_tag() (LP: #840758)
    - crash when looping paint list in preparePaint (on closing windows)
      (LP: #853807)
    - Alt-Tab should not preview windows at excessively large sizes
      (LP: #854740)
    - Clicking on a tweet/message link sometimes does not work (LP: #790565)
    - Dragging a launcher icon makes it squashed (LP: #855761)
    - unable to unminimize gedit windows where more than one window where one
      has a dialog open (LP: #856030)
    - (oneiric) alt-tab UX doesn't work well on multi-monitor (LP: #855364)
    - Launcher shows on the primary monitor instead of the left most monitor
      (LP: #857668)
    - Keynav - pressing down key causes launcher items to jump up and down
      (LP: #858469)
    - Windows creep cross the screen with ALT+TAB (LP: #722830)
    - Minimize animation flickr when for maximized apps (LP: #737125)
    - All unity windows are invisible (panel, launcher, dash) (LP: #745996)
    - Dash "See 97 more results" has ~1 second of latency (LP: #731158)
    - Windows cannot be dragged down from panel if banshee closed to sound
      menu (LP: #781215)
    - no menu bar on top, compositing bug? (LP: #806358)
    - Launcher - a spread can accidentally be triggered during the 'dragging
      and dropping behind the Launcher' interaction (LP: #832988)
    - Impossible to navigate between panel menus when the mouse cursor is over
      the panel (LP: #834065)
    - Pressing alt on maximized window does show menu but not window controls
      (LP: #836274)
    - Application name drawn under Dash controls when window opens under Dash
      (LP: #838176)
    - Start ...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

Still many outstanding issues, but bug signed off because these issues are tracked in multiple new bugs. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/863246 for the largest of the outstanding alignment bugs

tags: added: reviewedbydesigno
removed: onew udo
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