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elementary / dock

A quick app launcher and window switcher for Pantheon and elementary OS
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Reveal hidden dock when cursor moved anywhere across bottom edge #122

Closed perchard closed 3 years ago

perchard commented 3 years ago

Problem

A hidden dock can be revealed by moving the cursor across the portion of the bottom edge of the screen containing the dock. The size of the dock is variable based on the number of open applications. Therefore it can be hard for a user to predict where across the bottom edge of the screen the cursor must be moved to reveal the dock. It can also be hard to reveal a dock with few open applications.

Proposal

Reveal the dock when the cursor is moved across any part of the bottom edge of the screen, not just the portion containing the dock.

Prior Art

Fitt's Law suggests that the time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. Increasing the size of the target will therefore reduce the time to acquire the target (i.e. reveal the dock).

The MacOS dock also works in this way (entire bottom edge of the screen reveals the dock).

Blast-City commented 3 years ago

Hi.

Is your issue the same as #28? If yes, please close this issue since it is a duplicate.

Thanks.

perchard commented 3 years ago

Ah, apologies, it is - somehow missed this when I searched for existing issues. Thanks for flagging.