GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171016
Autohiding the panel into another panel creates UI ugliness
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:20:11 UTC
Please describe the problem: create two perpendicular panels. In my case I have A panel that spans the top and a panel on the left. add autohide buttons to the panel that does not span the entire screen. In my case this is the left one. Autohide the panel so that it autohides into the other panel. If you rest the mouse over the autohide button of the hidden panel the last icon of the panel becomes visible. It covers the other panel. If you then follow the mouse from the hidden panel to the nonhidden panel, the UI bug stays there. It is possible to get the icon to display forever. It only goes away when you bring the mouse back to the hide button. It continues to cover important parts of the other panel. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: I feel like the icon should never be displayed. Perhaps it was added as a way to "preview" what you could unhide. But since most of the time its a tiny piece of the panel, not even a full icon. this seems kind of useless. Also it is a decent assumption that the user knows what is on the panel that they themselves hide. Does this happen every time? Yes, I can easily repeat this Other information:
Created attachment 38967 [details] This is a screenshot of the bug.
Ubuntu bug about that: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16045
Updating version. This bug still exists in 2.14
Still does it in 2.16 too.
Ubuntu Bug URL is now: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/22253
Does this still happen with 2.26? I can't manage to reproduce it.
Using ubuntu 9.04, it seems to still happen. Now though, the panel that is being hidden always stays on top. Before, the hiding panel would stay underneath for a little while, making the bug more obvious. I am kind of over the phase of having a vertical panel on the side, so I forgot this bug existed.
I recently upgraded to 2.26.1 and can still reproduce this bug. If I do the steps described in the original post I still can get the "preview" icon to remain on the perpendicular panel. If my description is confusing I could create a screen cast. To be honest, I no longer use my panels in the manner that produces this bug. So the bug really doesn't bother me. However, for completeness sake, yes the bug still exists.
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