Comment 46 for bug 668415

What purpose does the "Fade on bfb and Slide" setting serve?

There's a lot going on in Unity's top-left corner. New windows spawn there. Window controls are laid immediately to the right of the bfb. There's the Application Menus. My cursor is constantly over and around the bfb in these situations while I have no intention of activating the Launcher. Yet the Launcher keeps partially sliding out/fading over what I'm trying to work on (especially when working with newly spawned windows or when trying to close a maximized window). I'm curious as to why there is no setting to turn off the Slide/Fade feature all together and what exactly this function is intended to serve?