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Bug 121736 - Floating panels should have 'invisible' handles
Floating panels should have 'invisible' handles
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 343004 428967 584327 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-08 03:54 UTC by dbrody
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description dbrody 2003-09-08 03:54:30 UTC
Well, the summary dosn't state it very well, but I will try to explain this
better.

Currently, with gnome 2.4, all floating panels have grab handles. The
obvious negative side effect is purly astetic.

Would it be posible to make the grab handles hidden until the user has the
mouse over the panel and/or the panel gains focus? (probably through the
ctrl+alt+tab list).
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2004-10-19 06:36:06 UTC
*** Bug 142656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 qingjiazhu 2006-04-07 12:48:31 UTC
I second this problem. If this can be fixed (transparent panel should be 100% transparent including the handles) it will greatly improve the user experience. please check screenshots:
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8889/screenshot23es.png
Comment 3 tomi 2007-04-10 08:46:40 UTC
Will this be fixed in GNOME .20 at least?
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2007-05-13 14:02:29 UTC
*** Bug 428967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jérôme Guelfucci 2007-09-28 17:33:08 UTC
Any news on this ?
Comment 6 Hans Deragon 2008-03-27 00:31:12 UTC
I would still prefer to see the handles remain hidden until the user actually fly over them, not over any region of the panel.  I would not like the handles to show up simply because I am selecting "Places" for instance.

I am not a Gnome developer, but considering that every other widget background is transparent, I would assume that coding it for the arrows should not be different.

In fact, arrows should be applets.  This way, you can put them at the extremities like they are currently, together like "<> Applications Places...", in one extremity only, as the user desires.  Same code would be used to make them transparent.
Comment 7 Philip Withnall 2009-05-31 11:13:45 UTC
*** Bug 343004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Philip Withnall 2009-05-31 11:14:44 UTC
*** Bug 584327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 rene87 2009-12-28 11:31:28 UTC
All these years and still nothing. Simply amazing!
Comment 10 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:16:38 UTC
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
old feature requests in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you still use gnome-panel and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be implemented.