Unity side panel doesn't hide for Appearance Preferences window

[kyleabaker]

The side panel appears to respect the Autohide/Intellihide preference for all windows, except for special windows (like the Appearance Preferences window which can be accessed via right-clicking the desktop and selecting Change Desktop Background, or GIMP's toolbox).

This bug is similar to the following but, though this bug does not require any special privileges whereas the following bug does:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/684590

[Matthew Rasmus (mrasmus)]

Confirmed in revision 712

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

In unity 3.2.12 this seems fixed, but it isn't - the appearance dialog just has a different window type (shows all three window buttons). I still see the behavior with GIMP's "Toolbox".

[Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 706109, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.