GNOME Panel

deskbar-applet does not unhide panel when getting focus

Bug #4873 reported by Sascha Brossmann on 2005-11-25

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Panel	In Progress	High	gnome-bugs #89180
	gnome-panel (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

In order to reduce screen clutter I put the deskbar-applet into a horizontal gnome panel of its own. The panel is normally hidden and slides out from the side only when needed. When the applet gets the focus by using the assigned shortcut the panel remains hidden, though. The desired behaviour would be the applet telling the panel to unhide when focus is received, and (symmetrically) telling the panel to hide again (if hidden before) after a short delay when focus is lost.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2005-11-28

Changed in deskbar-applet:
assignee:	nobody → dholbach

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2005-11-28:

Thanks for your ideas. I forwarded them to the upstream bug tracker: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322665 is now the place of discussion

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2005-12-02:

An upstream developer said:

Can confirm on Ubuntu Breezy. Note that this bug is when the panel is set to
"Show hide buttons" - i.e. manual hiding, not autohiding. Autohide seems to
work fine with the keyboard shortcut.

It's a duplicate of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89180
which is related to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81041

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-02-14

Changed in deskbar-applet:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2007-01-30

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee:	dholbach → desktop-bugs
importance:	Medium → Low

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-02-01

Changed in gnome-panel:
status:	Unknown → In Progress

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-05-08

Changed in gnome-panel:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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crazypenguin2008 (b-series-12valve-guy) wrote on 2008-09-18:

hey im running the latest version or hardy. i set my panels to hide with the hide panel buttons. it worked then i decided to unenable them. but my pannels disaperaed. if i leave a message window up the panels come back but soon as i click the page i have up they disapere.

ive been searching for help on the ubuntu fourm for the last 3 hrs and no one knows how to fix it...

possiably a bug

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16