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Bug 335483 - No convenient method to hide notes.
No convenient method to hide notes.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: stickynotes
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
: 523668 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-22 10:25 UTC by Håkon Rydland
Modified: 2010-01-24 01:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Håkon Rydland 2006-03-22 10:25:21 UTC 
I almost always have maximized windows on all my workspaces, or at least try to
maximise the use of the screen. The result is that I only have a handful of
desktop pixels to click on to get rid of the notes, which is difficult to hit
with the mouse, and quite annoying.
In some previous version (don't remember which) I believe I could configure the
notes icon on the panel to behave like a toggle to show/hide the notes.
Would it be possible to add such a feature, or at least a "hide notes" choice
when right clicking the notes icon?
Comment 1 Chong Kai Xiong 2006-04-14 03:58:22 UTC 
I'd also like to be able to hide notes just by left-clicking on the applet when the notes are already in view. In other words, left-clicking toggles visibility (like it used to). 

Right clicking and selecting Hide Notes is really inconvenient to me.
Comment 2 Danielle Madeley 2006-04-14 17:01:46 UTC 
Click on the desktop.
Comment 3 Chong Kai Xiong 2006-04-14 21:08:04 UTC 
Did you even read what Hakon wrote? I also have my windows fully maximised. Clicking on the desktop is no more convenient.

(And clicking on the maximized windows would obscure it, but I'd really like to just hide the notes and not have it appear again when I switch to a new workspace.)

You appear to be pretty dismissive of the suggestion, perhaps you could explain what's wrong with it?
Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2006-04-15 01:44:16 UTC 
I will accept a patch to optionally reimplement the old mode, this is bug #315508.

From a functionality point of view, obscuring all of the notes with a maximised window is the same as hiding them. To bring them above this window you click the icon, the hide them you click the window. If that window is the desktop, you click the desktop and they go away.
Comment 5 Håkon Rydland 2006-04-23 10:53:16 UTC 
I've created a patch for this.
I will add it as an attachment to bug #315508
Comment 6 Adam Clements 2008-03-21 01:38:27 UTC 
*** Bug 523668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***