Bug 371174

Summary: Add intelli-hide behavior to Plasma panels
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: kentallenduke <kentallenduke>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4L7L438fmSgamd1bTVUa0lDZTQ/view
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Description kentallenduke 2016-10-18 18:29:39 UTC
Right now, there are only two options to adjust the behavior of the plasma panel: always show the panel, or auto-hide the panel. Could we get an option to intelli-hide the panel? Intelli-hide shows the panel when no windows are obstructing the panel, but hides it when a window is maximized or covering the panel; to bring back the panel, the user would put their cursor to the top of the screen to display the panel to launch something. Incredible useful for users like I who use the panel as a dock. This feature mimics the Plank dock behavior.

The URL is just a screenshot of my desktop, but I'm trying to show how much space it could save without dealing with the panel auto-hiding all the time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "Configure Plasma button" that allows users to edit the size and behavior of the panel + adding widgets.
2. Click on "More Settings".
3. Change the Visibility of the Panel to Intellihide

Actual Results:  
No actual results since this feature isn't implemented.

Expected Results:  
The panel intellihides, reclaiming space from the bottom panel and fixing the annoying problem with autohide.

A lot of people may say to just use Plank, but I feel the KDE plasma panels has an edge over plank by being able to show notification count, progress bar and general consistency to the desktop.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2016-10-19 10:05:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 349785 ***