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commit 646e263a1f0c85da6c2dd769c89a51d352202dc2
Author: Sammie Quon <sammiequon@google.com>
Date: Tue Feb 27 19:55:40 2018

cros: Hide context menu on entering tablet mode.

Otherwise users can select shelf settings that tablet mode does not
allow. Alternatively, we can keep the menu open and disable the
options, but I think this should suffice.

Test: manual
Bug:  814976 
Change-Id: Id42a0c1ceef879d1227317ee0d27911b73df6c1b
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/935627
Reviewed-by: James Cook <jamescook@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Sammie Quon <sammiequon@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#539529}
[modify] https://crrev.com/646e263a1f0c85da6c2dd769c89a51d352202dc2/ash/root_window_controller.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/646e263a1f0c85da6c2dd769c89a51d352202dc2/ash/root_window_controller.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/646e263a1f0c85da6c2dd769c89a51d352202dc2/ash/root_window_controller_unittest.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/646e263a1f0c85da6c2dd769c89a51d352202dc2/ash/wm/tablet_mode/tablet_mode_controller.cc

Since research reveals that many Chromebook users have been adversely affected by the Chrome OS development team's decision to force the shelf to be in 'Bottom' position in Tablet Mode (and in Tent and Entertainment modes, too), I have compiled a comprehensive campaigning Issue Report, asking the Chrome OS development to undo this regressive, freedom-limiting restriction, by restoring our 'Left' and 'Right' shelf position options to Chrome OS Tablet Mode:

● 'Prior Tablet Mode Shelf Position "Bug Fix" Seriously Degrades Chromebook UX', 03 Mar 2018
» https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=818423
— contains links to six related Issue Reports, and copies of 12 other end user complaints regarding the detrimental effects of restricting shelf position in Tablet & Tent & Entertainment Modes to 'Bottom' only.

If you too would appreciate the restoration of the 'Left' and 'Right' shelf position options to Tablet & Tent & Entertainment Modes, then please:
1. click on the link above,
2. scroll down to the bottom of the Issue Report webpage, and
3. click on the star, to 'Vote for this issue and get email change notifications';
4. optionally, do please also add a comment of your own, maybe describing how the new, forced, 'Bottom'-only shelf position imposition adversely affects your own use of Chrome OS.

Thanks in advance for your help in restoring user-determined shelf position freedom to Chrome OS Tablet Mode.

See also:

● 'Why Can I No Longer Choose Shelf Position in Tablet Mode?', 01 Mar 2018
» https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/pixelbook/8XXiGakpREA
— an issue discussion thread in the Google Product Forums.

Thank you for all your feedback, I care deeply about it, I'd like to track it in a clean single bug.

My thanks to omrilio@chromium.org for consolidating the nine Chrome OS Tablet Mode shelf-related issue trackers which I identified (plus my own) into a new meta-issue-tracker:
● 'Investigate improvements to shelf on tablet mode', 09 Mar 2018
» https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=820368

If, like me and many other Chromebook users, you too would appreciate the restoration of the 'Left' and 'Right' shelf position options to Tablet & Tent & Entertainment Modes, or if you are experiencing other Tablet Mode shelf-related problems, then please:
1. click on the link above,
2. scroll down to the bottom of omrilio's Meta-Issue-Tracker webpage, and
3. click on the star, to 'Vote for this issue and get email change notifications';
4. optionally, do please also add a comment of your own, maybe describing how the new, forced, 'Bottom'-only shelf position imposition adversely affects your own use of Chrome OS, or supplying additional useful diagnostic info, such as specific details about how use of a particular app is hindered by the shelf.

Thanks in advance for your help in restoring user-determined shelf position freedom to Chrome OS Tablet Mode.

See also:

● 'Why Can I No Longer Choose Shelf Position in Tablet Mode?'
— an issue discussion thread in the Google Product Forums, 01 Mar 2018
» https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/pixelbook/8XXiGakpREA

● 'Chrome OS: Tablet Mode Shelf-Related Issue Trackers'
– shared Google Sheets spreadsheet, 11 Mar 2018
» https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XSTb96nJlWYlOhs3dPlLqiCdll4vdM1yxVZHMvCt3M/edit?usp=sharing 

Issue 728833 has been merged into this issue.

Without autohide functionality - the Shelf is nothing but a flaw and distraction when using a stylus, or even when using YouTube Android app (try to fullscreen a video, and see the Shelf is still there!)


Please bring this feature back. Autohide is a necessity. The shelf should only show up when seeing the desktop or when pulled from bottom.


and no, a keyboard is not an option.

Acer Chromebook Tab 10