gnome-panel needs pointer or click to hide

[teto]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When I launch an application from the icons in the gnome-panel, the panel cover the upper side of the window and doesn't autohide until the mouse pointer pass over the panel (just touch a pixel inside the panel and then it hides).
Disturbing because you can't see the upper side of the window of the application you have launched.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex release candidate.
1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug.

[Wouter de Groot (donteatcheese)]

Pedro:
Yes, this is reproducible every single time.
1) Tell gnome-panel to autohide.
2a) Click on a launcher, or
2b) Open menu on an applet (e.g. preferences, power history...)
Observe panel does not autohide.
3) Mouseover panel, move pointer away from panel.
Observe panel autohides.
The problem does not occur using the menubar to launch applications, or using the show desktop button.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I can not confirm this for launchers, but for preferences menus:
1) Tell gnome-panel to auto-hide
2) Right click on the clock applet
3) Choose Preferences
4) Move the mouse away from the panel
-> The panel does not auto-hide, you have to hover and un-hover it again.

Btw: I have compiz deaktivated so this seems not to be a compiz bug

Thank you.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I tried it with compiz aktivated/deaktivated: Compiz does not influence the behavior, so I set this to "invalid"

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I found three bugs in the upstream tracker that describe the problem:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529785
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302574
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134563

Don't know which to link here. Maybe they don't know about the duplicates, either.