GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 528818
panel autohide animations are not configurable in the panel properties dialog
Last modified: 2009-06-18 07:16:35 UTC
Add an indented checkbox just under the "Autohide" checkbox: "Animate Show/Hide" Animating the transition of a panel from hidden to shown is an utter misfeature to begin with, because it wastes the user's time waiting for access to the panel. That specific animation should be off by default, but it's even worse when there's no option in the UI to disable it. Other information:
I second that. The 500 ms delay to unhide it is also annoying. It was driving me nuts, till I found the gconf keys to set it to a usable value. Such an basic aspect should be configurable by GUI. To show that I'm not just an old man ranting, let me quote some topics from ubuntuforums.org, where this issue is somewhat common: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170864 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-60472.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3301 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-237078.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786849
Agreed. Slow unhide makes the UI seem unresponsive; it can be present, but the default should be quicker and the timing configuration should be exposed to the user (at least as a Slow / Fast / Off option, to keep it simple for non-technical users).
See bug 585963, where we changed the defaults. Now it's much better, which solves your main issue. But we won't add a UI for this, it's really not something that should need tweaking.