Top panel temporarily becomes transparent when launching the dash

[DavidBriscoe]

Binary package hint: unity

Sometimes when I click the Ubuntu button to open the dash, the top panel becomes transparent momentarily before my current application disappears and the translucent dash appears. The panel appears to have its background set to 100% transparency, so I can see my desktop image behind the clock and notifiers. Since the dash is not 100% transparent, the transition is jarring. (Dark color to bright colors to dark tinted bright colors.)

If I repeatedly click on the Ubuntu button, I don't see the problem. I think it only happens if I haven't clicked the Ubuntu button for a while.

I have an Inspiron 1545.
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Full lspci and lspci -vvnn are in lspci.log

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.46-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 28 13:28:40 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

All this slowdown issue should be fixed soon with the compiz rewrite.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

using this as a tracker for making the panel -> dash-panel transition animated instead of a flick

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

In testing this doesn't happen with latest unity in natty (UNITY_ENABLE_PLACES=1)