Bug 387252

Summary:	Autohidden panel unhides inconveniently
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	dag
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.8.7
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description dag 2017-11-24 09:38:03 UTC

Using a hidden Task manager in a autohidden panel on the left hand of my screen. This pops up inconveniently at any change in the workspace. Adding a new window will pop it up for example. After that it doesn't even hide again until you have ran the mouse by it.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-11-24 15:06:33 UTC

This is fixed in newer versions of Plasma (KWin) but the patch was too invasive and risky to be backported to LTS, sorry.

(Basically whenever a geometry change request was posted for the panel (e.g. implicit size of Task Manager changing due to items being added/removed) KWin would unhide the panel as it could have moved out of the visible are and become unreachable. It then didn't re-apply the auto hiding)