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Bug 489316 - Sticky Notes Do Not Hide When Clicking on Desktop
Sticky Notes Do Not Hide When Clicking on Desktop
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 510933
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: stickynotes
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-23 09:43 UTC by jeremy fisher
Modified: 2009-07-08 12:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description jeremy fisher 2007-10-23 09:43:24 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 and sticky notes no longer work properly. They do not hide when I click on the desktop. They also do not hide when I click on the Sticky Notes icon in the panel (although I'm not sure if they're supposed to display this second behavior).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a sticky note
2. Click on desktop


Actual results:
Sticky note remains visible, does not hide.

Expected results:
Sticky note ought to hide when clicking on the desktop.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Leon 2008-04-12 14:21:41 UTC 
This also happens to me on Fedora 8. As I recall, it worked fine on Fedora 7. Maybe this bug is considered a feature, but adding an option to control this behaviour would be nice as it is far more convenient to hide the note by clicking on the desktop. It also mirrors real-world actions - stickies on real desktops are ignored or covered when the desk is in use.
Comment 2 tim waters 2008-11-24 15:42:33 UTC 
I get this bug too, on Ubuntu 7.10. 
To hide the notes is a fiddly operation, right click, select, click. They should hide when the user clicks on the sticky notes icon (the icon more intuitively toggling show and hide).

Also, if I click on the "Show Desktop Button", or Ctrl-Alt-D then the desktop is displayed, and the notes are hidden.
Comment 3 Callum McKenzie 2008-11-24 23:58:51 UTC 
Clicking on the icon hides the notes as of 2.25.1. I'm still looking into how and why clicking on the desktop stopped working.
Comment 4 Leonardo Boiko 2009-03-05 17:05:56 UTC 
I confirm this in Ubuntu 8.10, sticky notes 2.24.1.  "Hide" option in right-click works, clicking the background doesn't.
Comment 5 Leonardo Boiko 2009-03-06 02:35:24 UTC 
Ah, I think I get it.  In past versions, you could hide the notes by clicking the desktop background; as of 2.25.x, it changed to hide by clicking the applet (clicking the applet now toggle the notes).  But Ubuntu Intrepid shipped with 2.24, which I guess is lost in transition; it doesn't hide by clicking the background, nor clicking the applet.  I backported 2.25 to Intrepid and it works.

Also, I believe the documentation should be updated.
Comment 6 Philip Withnall 2009-07-08 12:53:20 UTC 
Duplicate of bug #510933 due to a patch being there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 510933 ***