After clicking "show desktop" applet and then selecting a window, many windows are expanded

[komputes]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open the following:
System > Preferences > Appearance
System > Preferences > Startup Applications
System > Administration > Hardware Drivers
System > Administration > Users and Groups

2) Click the "show desktop" applet

3) Click on Appearance from the window list

Result: all the programs come up
Expected result: only appearance should come up

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 21:21:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1923): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1923): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1953): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1962): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2211): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though but a design decision, the show desktop is not mean to send all software to the task list but to show the desktop to be able to interact with it, once done you get your normal layout back on screen

[komputes (komputes)]

In that case we have a bigger issue (inconsistency in behavior) because certain applications come back up (the ones I mentioned) and certain do not (all other apps that ship with the distribution).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Somebody who cares should send that upstream, seems a non issue and we have thousand of other bugs waiting

[komputes (komputes)]

Bug has been reported upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597740