deskbar-applet does not unhide panel when getting focus

[Sascha Brossmann]

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)]

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

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

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

[crazypenguin2008 (b-series-12valve-guy)]

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