GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311190
Icons in notification area should be clickable from the edge of the panel
Last modified: 2009-06-04 06:34:49 UTC
When I throw the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen and click, the click appears to be taken by the notification area applet, not by the icon in the notification area. (The easiest way to see this is to right-click with the mouse pointer at the edge of the screen; the context menu that comes up is the one for the notification area and not for the icon. Move the mouse pointer up a pixel or two and right-click again; this time you see the context menu for the icon.) It seems that icons in the notification area should be accessible from the edge of the screen, thereby increasing their effective clickable area. Other information: Tested on Ubuntu 5.04 and Slackware 10.1 with Dropline GNOME 2.10.2.
*** Bug 314244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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I can confirm the bug. It's quite irritating because I thought the application was bad and just didn't respond sometimes, until I noticed that it's only when I click at the very top of the screen. Also, the volume control icon works, it's possible to click at the edge and the slider comes up. Is it a fault of the panel or of the applications providing the icons? Maybe this could be marked as gnome-love (provided it's not too difficult to fix).
I too can confirm this issue. I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (Gnome 2.24.1 + whatever Canonical adds) and it is starting to irritate me badly. Unlike Robin's comment though, the volume control does *not* work for me. I do not get any response clicking at the very top of the screen with any of the applets, nor do I get the panel context menu if I right click. This issue is also present when trying to click on the far left of the top panel, but strangely the left-hand applet *does* respond if I click in the most top-left of the screen. One pixel down or right of that corner, and the applet will not respond. To sum up all of my tests though: - Expanded panel on any side - All corner pixels interact with the applets placed hard in that corner - All other edge pixels do not interact with the applets nor the gnome panel. I'm pretty sure this didn't happening the version of Gnome they shipped in Ubuntu 8.04, because I've only started noticing it since upgrading. I will check this on my 8.04 install later. Maybe Canonical had patched it themselves?
Please disregard comment #4. My issue is not a problem with the Gnome panel but with Compiz. Switching back to Metacity allows me to select the outer most pixels on all screen edges. I can now interact with all applets at the absolute screen edge.
*** Bug 565697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 562362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 135847 [details] [review] patch
Committed without the border width parts.