https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367440
Bug ID: 367440
Summary: Autohide delay
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.7.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: inf...@openaliasbox.org
Fist of all, excuse me if I'm duplicating bugs, I already posted here 4 months
ago: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267277 but that bug dates from 2011
and nobody seems to have taken any care of it, so I have the impression it's a
"necrobug". Anyway, if you consider it appropriate don't hesitate to mark this
one of mine as a duplicate.
Ok, here I go.
We can configure actions for our screen's borders, and besides which action we
want, if any, we can also configure a delay time so we don't get on our nerves
because every time we slightly feather-brush any of the borders some action is
insolently executed unintentionally.
Well, this feature should be available for the panel as well: If you want to
take advantage of all your screen's size and don't need to have all the panel
stuff at sight all the time you'll probably set your panel to hide/show
automatically, especially on laptop screens. But there's no option to configure
any delay, as soon as your ponter brushes the lower border, the panel abruptly
emerges. It's really exasperating when you pass your mouse by the lower border
because some interface requires it, for it has some buttons at its lower
border, and suddenly the damn panel interrupts your workflow, forcing you to
move away your mouse, and coming back for a second time to click, this time
with surgeon's precision, what you really wanted to click without "wakeing up
the monster".
I have seen this feature requested in several places since the times of KDE 4,
at last, but I suppose no developer must be using autohide ergo devs probably
aren't really aware of how annoying this defficiency is. So, please, devs, try
it by youselves, just for a couple of days. Do us that favor and configure your
panel(s) to autohide; when you reach the 13th or 14th time in a day you are
bugged by this behavior and you are about to crash your computer against the
wall, x-P, just relax and think if it would be too difficult to adapt the code
that is already available for the window borders actions. It would be a huge
usability improvement.
I think this is not a simple wish but a real usability deffect, that's why I'm
marking it as a bug.
Cheers
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure desktop panel(s) to autohide/show
2. Touch, even for a tenth of second, the lower border of your screen
3. Go take some tranquilizing infusion/pills/whatever (optional but
recommendable)
Actual Results:
The panel shows without mercy, even if I didn't want it to show, and interrupt
the real action I wanted to perform.
Expected Results:
To let the user set a delay so the panel doesn't emerge instantly.
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