GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124794
Drawers on autohide panels evasive
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If a drawer is placed on an panel set to autohide, and startup icons are placed in the drawer, moving off of the panel and on to the drawer icons causes the panel to hide and the drawer to close and hide along with the panel, thus making it difficult or impossible to click on an icon in the drawer (unless one is very quick!). In previous versions of gnome-panel, having a drawer open was sufficient condition for the a panel containing the drawer to not autohide until the drawer was closed, either explicitly or by clicking on a contained icon (if it were configured to do so). It may be a related issue that if a drawer is on an autohide panel and the panel is unhidden with the mouse cursor, the drawer will open even if the cursor is passed over a portion of the panel not containing the drawer. The same is true of drawers within drawers. If the containing panel is un-hidden, the entire drawer heirarchy is opened, although because of the problem noted above, it's inaccessable. I'm running the following: (gnome-2.4 - metapackage) gnome-common-2.4.0 gnome-desktop-2.4.0 gnome-panel-2.4.0 sawfish-1.3
Lindsay: Thanks for the report. There are 2 problems here. a) bug #124016 fixes the problem of parent autohidden panel taking down its open drawers. Fixed in 2.4.1 b) bug #121382 is for the drawers opening up on unhiding the parent panel. I am tending to mark this as a dup of bug #121382, since it's still open. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121382 ***