Autohide should be velocity-sensitive

[Matthew Pirocchi]

The designers at the Gnome Usability Hackfest figured out that autohiding panels are a lot more useful when unhiding is velocity-sensitive. Basically the idea is that it's easy to tell when the user actually *wants* their panel, because they throw their mouse at the bottom of the screen. If their mouse just happens to touch the bottom of the screen while they are working, it does not unhide. This would even better for Docky, as users tend to auto-hide their docks much more than their panels.

See these links for details:
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/zuhanden-gnome3.pdf (PDF, page 5)
http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/task-pooper-could-revolutionize-gnome-desktop.ars

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Sounds like voodoo!

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Sounds like potentially awesome voodoo you mean

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

This does sound very badass,

BUMP :D

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

This isn't a duplicate of "Add some type of delay or threshhold to expose docky." That bug is asking for a timer, this bug is asking for velocity-sensitivity. They're two totally different things.

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

Oh nevermind, you copied the idea from this bug into the other bug. Sorry, please ignore!

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

/me slaps mpiroc

It's two solutions to the same problem. Only one will be implemented. :-)