GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 541374
Can't put two panels on the same edge with auto-hiding
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:24:00 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have a lot of panel applets and tray-docked applications, so much that I don't have enough space on one panel. I decided to put another panel under the first panel, but as I don't want to take up too much space on from the applications, I decided to set it to auto-hide. With one panel auto-hiding, it appears behind the first panel with just a small part not overlapping, but when I mouse over the auto-hidden part of the panel showing under the panel, it immediately covers the top panel and then slowly descends to cover the application area. This introduces an annoying flicker of the main panel. Also if I have a fully maximized application on the work space, then you can see that as the panel descends the application window grows back to where it would have been if not for the auto-hidden panel, and then jumps back down - introducing an annoying jitter in the application content. Steps to reproduce: 1. With a top panel always visible, right click it and chose "new panel" 2. Drag the new panel under the top panel. 3. modify the new panel properties to auto-hide. 4. start a fully maximized application. 5. try to activate the auto-hidden panel and deactivate it Actual results: The auto-hidden panel first jumps in front of the main top panel, then the application window jumps up a few pixels, then the auto-hidden panel moves down slowly, then the application window jumps back down a few pixels. When the auto-hidden panel is deactivated by moving the cursor away, the reverse process happens Expected results: When the auto-hidden panel activates, it should smoothly slide under the top panel, with not change in z height of either panel or applications, and w/o a change in the workspace size available for applications. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Sometimes after the auto-hidden panel deactivates it stays above the main top panel, covering it and obscuring its content, and I need to mouse over it again to get it to hide under the main top panel.
Another note - setting both panels to auto-hide is an even worse usability disaster, but at least rightly so. The application jitter is also apparent in such a configuration though it doesn't happen with a single auto-hidden panel.
*** Bug 581208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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