Re: Minor freeze break: gnome-shell: hot corner and prelight

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> [ Missent to gnome-shell-list the first time, resend ]
>
> Patch landed in gnome-shell on 3-16 prior to 2.91.92 that added
> prelighting to items on the top bar to make it obvious that they
> were clickable.
>
> In this patch the case where the pointer is sitting on the 3x3
> actor that is there to implement the hot corner for "Activities"
> was missed (this actor is clickable, but not actually part of the
> Activities button), this means that when you trigger the hot corner
> you get:
>
>  start:             no-prelight
>  enter-button:      prelight
>  enter-hot -corner: no-prelight
>  in overview:       prelight (actually, "active" state)
>
> This flashing is somewhat distracting and confusing, and it
> would be good to fix it:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645751
>
> Consider the patch very safe - biggest risk would be that in some
> circumstance we've missed in testing and review the Activities
> button might end prelighted when it shouldn't or vice-versa.

RT Approval 1 of 2
-- 
Frederic Crozat