The developer reaction to this basic bug is a joke, and is the reason why people are afraid of challenging quality levels offered by monopolies. Taskbar autohide functionality has existed in window managers for over a decade, and Linux can't get it right... Why even support the feature if it doesn't work?
It seems people have given up all together on this issue - out of "choice" perhaps? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82504 Title: gnome-panel autohides inconsistently Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Confirmed Status in NULL Project: Invalid Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Hi! I'm using Ubuntu Feisty (the latest version from the official repositories) and I have a bit of a problem with the gnome-panel. I set the panels in a very similar arrangement as the default one -- a panel on the top side of the screen and another on the bottom, with a few applets changed and shuffled. I set both panels to autohide, as I like having my full screen available for applications. I also tweaked a bit the settings using the configuration editor: I set the hide/unhide delay to zero, and the "size when hidden" also to zero. This works almost always exactly the way I wanted it: the panel disappear completely when not used, and appear instantly when needed. However, for some reason I can't determine, sometimes I notice that one of the panels (I've seen it happen to either at some point) remain unhidden, despite the mouse cursor being outside them, and even clicking inside the windows. If I enter the panel with the mouse (no click is necessary) it will then disappear when the cursor leaves it. Like I said, I haven't been able to notice exactly what causes the panel to remain up -- but it always happens after I did something with it (it never pops up by itself). It seems for some reason it misses (or doesn't receive) a mouse-leave event or something similar. Please let me know if I can help diagnosing this in any way. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/82504/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
