Dash and Launcher - As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the Dash, there is a 'flicker' before the Launcher icons that are valid drop receptacles re-saturate

Bug Description

[Test Case]
1. Open the files lens
2. Select and drag a document-file (e.g. text or image) to the launcher
-> As you drag the document-file watch the drag-targets (drop-recepticals) saturate. This saturation-process should be smooth and without flicker. The tinting of the non-drag-targets should not change.

[Regression Potential]
Launcher icons not saturating/desaturating/changing colors when Dash is opened. Same problems during drag-and-drop operations from the launcher.

Original description:

As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the Dash, all the icons in the Launcher re-saturate briefly (they 'flicker'), before re-saturating leaving only the valid drop receptacles illuminated. This is incorrect, only the icons that are valid drop receptacles should change in any way.

The tinting of the launcher icons that are not valid drop receptacles becomes incorrect when a drag operation is underway, the icons seem to loose their average background colour tinting.

Also the illumination should fade in (and out) over 100ms, not switch on instantly.

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Desired Resolution:

- When a user starts dragging either:

a) A item from the Dash
b) A file in Nautilus
c) Some test that has been selected

...only the icons that are valid drop recepticals should illuminate. Icons that are not valid drop recepticals should not flicker, or change in any way

- The illumination of the valid drop recepticals should fade in (fade lasting 100ms)

- The tinting of icons that are not valid drop recepticals should not change in any way (currently they loose their tinting when a drag starts)

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.8.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.8.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

* New upstream release.
- New "push mouse offscreen" feature really difficult to get (LP: #923749)
- unity-2d-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in
unity::indicator::DBusIndicators::Impl::RequestSyncAll() (LP: #864737)
- Pressing "Alt+Enter" causes compiz to crash in CompOption::value() from
unity::UnityScreen::showLauncherKeyTerminate (LP: #960957)
- SEGSIGV after unplugging external monitor (LP: #962693)
- Background colorization should use a different heuristic (LP: #865239)
- compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system
(LP: #917210)
- [FFe, UIFe] HUD - The HUD does not respect launcher autohide or icon
size settings (LP: #921506)
- clicking on folders in the file lens does not open nautilus
(LP: #921665)
- No text inside multirange filters (LP: #927710)
- can't alt-tab restore minimized uis which have an instance on another
workspace (LP: #933397)
- Ubuntu Software Center Unity launcher integration is not working
(LP: #932280)
- The line separator between the launcher and the dash is cleared when
selecting a category (LP: #941082)
- unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_foreach()
(LP: #937119)
- Alt-F10 locks up Unity (LP: #948522)
- multimonitor, launcher: Provide an option to display either a single
launcher or a launcher on each display in a multi-monitor environment
(LP: #950136)
- multimonitor: Please give me a way to turn off sticky monitor edges
(LP: #946104)
- Unity 5.6: key bindings (such as Super) don't work on empty workspace or
on slow/loaded systems (LP: #953089)
- Alt+arrows keyboard shortcuts don't invoke Back and Forward navigation
(LP: #953783)
- HUD is sending 2 menu signals instead of 1 (LP: #956878)
- 6th item of HUD not fully visible (LP: #957229)
- HUD: seems to trigger operations more than once (LP: #960503)
- Launcher gets always desaturated when using HUD on secondary monitor
(LP: #961169)
- [5.8 pre staging] launcher is displayed on the left screen, not the
primary one (LP: #961281)
- launcher icons do not re-saturate after dash is closed (LP: #961844)
- Launcher shows arrows for applications on all workspaces (LP: #961977)
- Dash - Implement overlay scrollbars in Dash (LP: #608124)
- [UIFe] Dash - No message displayed when no results are returned in the
Dash (LP: #711199)
- Dash - "See more..." line should be base-aligned with section header
(LP: #748101)
- Dash - Missing category separator line in dash (LP: #850984)
- Dash and Launcher - As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the
Dash, there is a 'flicker' before the Launcher icons that are valid drop
receptacles re-saturate (LP: #863230)
- Dash - When multiple results have equal string match relevancy ranking,
those with equal ranking should be then sorted by frequency of use.
(LP: #871900)
- Keyboard shortcut - F10 shortcut is used to show m...

confirmed, issue still not fixed.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.0.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.0.0-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

[ Didier Roche ]
* debian/rules, debian/control, debian/unity-autopilot.install:
- install new unity-autopilot package, containing autopilot bindings and
test for Unity
- add some python build-dep for executing setup.py
- use dh_python2 and add some python:Depends dep for automatic python
version detection
* debian/control:
- remove gnome-desktop dependency: not needed upstream anymore
- unity Breaks older lenses due to path change
- remove libgdu in build-dep
* debian/libunity-core-6.0-5.install, debian/libunity-core-6.0-dev.install,
debian/control:
- version bump in libunity-core, change soname

[ Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) ]
* Update apport hook for python3 ; thanks to Edward Donovan (LP: #1013171)

[ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
* New upstream release.
- compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in get_current_slide() from
unity::BGHash::OnSlideshowTransition() (LP: #889625)
- Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps (LP: #734908)
- App icon on the Unity Launcher lost track of running instance
(LP: #772063)
- unity crashed with NameError in reset_unity_compiz_profile(): global
name 'GError' is not defined (LP: #778470)
- compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompWindow::id() from getPaintMask()
[compizminimizedwindowhandler.h] from unity::UnityWindow::glPaint()
(LP: #851982)
- HUD - Formatting of text in the auto-complete is wrong (LP: #939436)
- [regression] Launcher is silent to screen reader users (LP: #949448)
- still some accent issues with unity/nux (LP: #950740)
- [regression] [precise] 3D apps run much slower under Unity (LP: #987304)
- No launcher icon or Alt+Tab entry for Gimp windows (LP: #995916)
- Locked smuxi launcher icon does not indicate smuxi running status
(LP: #999820)
- When number of workspaces is set to 1, the Spread no longer works
(LP: #996604)
- Much slower OpenGL frame rates with unityshell loaded, than plain compiz
(LP: #988079)
- Port to libudisks2 (LP: #1012000)
- Desktop, Launcher and menu bar still visible when screen locked
(LP: #886605)
- Searching in the HUD freezes unity (LP: #1016239)
- Dragged icons rendered under dash (LP: #1021541)
- Regression in Launcher keyboard navigation (with Alt+F1) (LP: #1021549)
- Unity dash is is much slower/laggy after revision 2469. (LP: #1021665)
- Dash and Launcher - As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the
Dash, there is a 'flicker' before the Launcher icons that are valid drop
receptacles re-saturate (LP: #863230)
- Dash - when a file is dragged from the Dash (Dash home, file lens, or
music lens) and dropped on a Launcher icon, the Dash should
automatically close (LP: #865168)
- Refreshing active blur makes the dash painfully slow (LP: #874230)
- Open dash, press Alt+f1 - dash remains open (LP: #919209)
- application reopens itself when last instance is closed from
windows/application switcher (LP: #926406)
- HUD D...

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/5.14.0-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.14.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.14.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

* New upstream release.
- Unity launcher shows internal partitions after they have been unmounted
(LP: #994163)
- can't click to dismiss hud in the area where dynamic hud results are
meant to appear (LP: #962651)
- Spread/Scale should exit if Dash is invoked (LP: #944033)
- Searching in the HUD freezes unity (LP: #1016239)
- Dash - The search bar gets the focus when pressing invalid keys
(LP: #931393)
- unity crashed with NameError in reset_unity_compiz_profile(): global name
'GError' is not defined (LP: #778470)
- When number of workspaces is set to 1, the Spread no longer works
(LP: #996604)
- compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompWindow::id() from getPaintMask()
from unity::UnityWindow::glPaint() (LP: #851982)
- "Keyboard Shortcuts" overlay can cause annoyance (LP: #934062)
- padding between last quicklist item and bottom edge is non-deterministic
(changes randomly) (LP: #955158)
- HUD Draws improperly while searching for results (LP: #932531)
- compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
unity::ui::KeyboardUtil::GetKeycodeAboveKeySymbol() (LP: #920258)
- Launcher - when a user starts dragging a item, any folded launcher icons
that are valid drop receptacles should unfold (LP: #839717)
- Dragging image from firefox/chrome to dock causes lagg/freeze
(LP: #772445)
- dash should open when pressing "super" in scale mode (LP: #1023811)
- Multimonitor, Launcher - When the Launcher is set to autohide and
'Sticky edges' are turned off, 'Launcher Edge Stop Overcome Pressure'
seems to be broken when revealing the Launcher (LP: #987955)
- Software Center add to launcher icon animation is delayed when the
launcher is in auto-hide mode (LP: #1012896)
- Purchased items are not being added to the Unity launcher (LP: #925014)
- Unity Launcher Fails To Auto-Hide When Enabled & Installing Commercial
Software (LP: #1002440)
- Regression: shift+click on a launcher icon to open a new application
instance gone (LP: #754565)
- Regression: Installing apps causes a terrible visual glitch-- have to
restart X.org. (LP: #981168)
- Duplicated applications icons on quick application restart (LP: #1003574)
- HUD - Formatting of text in the auto-complete is wrong (LP: #939436)
- alt-backtick flickers between windows (LP: #987156)
- [Hud] The result grid is not drawn in proximity of the search entry
(LP: #1008603)
- Dash and Launcher - As soon as a user starts dragging a file from the
Dash, there is a 'flicker' before the Launcher icons that are valid drop
receptacles re-saturate (LP: #863230)
- [hud] The last button is not rounded (LP: #1008656)
- Hud flickers when show up (LP: #1011507)
- Dash maximise button changed location (LP: #987674)
- launcher reordering "line" doesn't go to the bottom slot (LP: #971421)
- Dash/HUD should close on "Spread" (LP: #870284)
- Nothing should be written into the dash/hud searchbar whe...

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