Auto-hide dock causes clock/notification to move

Bug #1847740 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Opinion
Undecided
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Bug Description

When disabling / enabling hiding of the dock - or indeed changing the width of the dock - in system settings - the clock / notification area moves. These feels wrong. The clock is not related to the dock size, and should not move with it. The clock should be in the centre of the display, not the centre of the usable area of the desktop I believe.

Steps to reproduce

Open system settings
Select dock
change the toggle to auto-hide the dock
Observe the clock move with the toggle

Expected behaviour

Clock/notification are is locked to the middle of the screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-17.18-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 11 11:11:44 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.desktop.app-folders' b'folder-children' b"['Utilities', 'Sundry', 'YaST']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.input-sources' b'sources' b"[('xkb', 'gb')]"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.notifications' b'application-children' b"['org-gnome-screenshot', 'update-manager']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.privacy' b'report-technical-problems' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-11 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Beta amd64 (20191011)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I personally agree with your perspective that this should not happen, but it is the designed behaviour (ask didrocks, willcooke). The intention was that the clock should be positioned to have the same centre line as any maximized window's title.

P.S. The desktop icons seem to be moving in the wrong direction in your screenshots. Please open a new bug if that's a concern.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Opinion
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Come to think of it, this was most recently discussed in Paris via bug 1843899, so let's use that.

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