Re: hot corner and fullscreen

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:15 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM, startx <startx plentyfact org> wrote:
> > hello.
> >
> > i only recently started to use the gnome-shell (and i really like it)
> >
> > one thing i recognized was that if i have an application window running
> > in "fullscreen", the hot corner to switch to the overview does not work
> > anymore.
> 
> This is definitely important; I'd consider it a bug if it did.  For
> example if you fullscreen a browser then you'd have a real fight over
> the back button.  (They conflict enough as it is right now)

Hmm, this is certainly an argument. (For those who haven't tried it, the
back button shows up with other controls when you go to the top edge in
Firefox fullscreen, and is jammed into the upper left.)

But on the other hand, it's pretty handy to be able to go into the
overview and switch workspaces if you, say, have a fullscreen
presentation. Or have a web browser fullscreen on a window and then have
other stuff on a different workspace.

Not sure which of these is more important as a consideration - the
reason that the hot corner doesn't work right now is more implementation
than design - you'd have to actually do new code to make it work since
the current hot corner is part of the top panel.

If you are using the keyboard to go to the overview or to go back in
your web browser, it doesn't matter much. :-)

- Owen