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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 728790] Re: It is possible to focus Unity itself and Close it from the global menu

Dylan, I opened this bug 733725 a few weeks ago after this issue was marked
fixed.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Alex Launi <email address hidden>wrote:

> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: New => Fix Released
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> Title:
> It is possible to focus Unity itself and Close it from the global menu
>
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity
>
> It is possible to focus Unity itself through bug #728787. (Open
> launcher right click menu and close that menu while the pointer is
> over the top panel or the launcher). When this happens, nothing is
> drawn in the top panel but the global menu still has its default
> File›Close menu, which you can find by clicking in the usual place.
>
> With bug #728787, this is actually not far fetched. One can easily
> focus Unity by opening a launcher menu while using a fullscreen
> application and then closing that menu with a click on the top panel,
> perhaps to access the File menu in the current fullscreened
> application. With the first click, the focus will change to Unity. A
> second click in the same place will open the default File menu,
> containing only Close. Pressing Close could easily make sense, but
> doing so will bring down the entire window manager.
>
> There are probably more ways to do this, so ideally it just shouldn't
> be possible to focus and close Unity.
>