Opening Message Tray conflicts with Dock behavior

[cldx]

If the Dock is open and you also open the MessageTray the Dock will run into focus problems. Now after closing Message Tray you will have to hit the bottom border TWICE to open the Dock.

I'm not sure this is a trivial thing to fix and it's a bit of a pain to track down cause the behavior is not consistent, f.e. if the Dock is open and i use Super+M to bring up the Message Tray and also use Super+M to close it again, there is no problem. The problem only occurs if i click on the Desktop to close the Tray, so somewhere in between the Dock hiding and the Message Tray hiding, the focus gets messed up.

Option 1: Ignore this until 3.16 cause afaik the Tray will be gone anyways and this won't cause a problem

Option2: Try to figure out how to properly grab the focus again (maybe anybody has a clue where to look for this?)

Option 3: Implement something like this: https://github.com/tuxor1337/insensitive-message-tray It's a small extension to disable the MessageTray. We can draw from this and implement is so that if the Dock is open, the Message Tray never comes up, it would still be accessible if you "press" the bottom border on the left and right side of the Dock.

[crutchcorn]

THANK YOU. I was going to open an issue for this but didn't know the proper terminology for the MessageTray. Driving me NUTS (THANK YOU for sharing that extension. Only thing that's worked with my system in particular)

[kyuucr]

This issue is what drives me somewhat away from the project a long time ago. I cannot figure out how to grab focus to the dock, and completely disabling message tray is not an option. For option 3 it only deals on disabling the tray pressure, how about the Super+M shortcut, should we disable it when the dock is open?

[crutchcorn]

Why is disabling tray pressure not an option? I currently have it set up like so and I have no issues with it whatsoever

[kyuucr]

I meant completely removing the message tray so that it can't be shown at all, whether the dock is open or closed. Some users might still using it (or not, and that's why it's removed on 3.16 :laughing: ). My aim is that the message tray and the dock could exist harmoniously.

I agree that disabling the tray pressure is an option, but it should be temporary only when the dock is open, and it might be possible to implement. But there still keyboard shortcut to deal with.

[crutchcorn]

(ROFL, thank goodness there TBH)

But why is that? My biggest issue was when I COULDN'T see the dock - as then I have to go to the lowest corner of the screen

[kyuucr]

OH THIS IS EMBARRASSING, I was on the old code :laughing: . Now I have updated to the latest version and I see the problem clearly. I'll look into implementing option 3

[crutchcorn]

Thank you! :)

[cldx]

Sup everyone, i fiddled with this too cause it's a bit embarrasing to just leave it like it is right now. I took a little different approach than @kyuucr in his Merge Request and so far left out the part where we disable MessageTray.

So what does it do? Message Tray always works as expected on the whole Border and Dock always hides when it's activated (this doesn't fix the MT to be very sensitive, which isn't a problem for me though, it's more of a muscle memory thing IMHO). Super + M works even when Dock is hovered.

Please give it a whirl and tell me what you think, you can find the little changes in the devel branch.

[me4oslav]

@cldx fix worked for me on two machines. Should we move it to master?

[kyuucr]

I'm okay with #51