I usually activate the "autohide" option in panels. Always have my main panel on left of desktop and another panel with a unique widget in the bottom. Both of those panels are autohidded. Problem comes when working with programs that can work at FULLSCREEN (gwenview, digikam, Words, ... When in fullscreen mode, if I try to click on that program left toolbar or bottom toolbar, they are not accesible. I didn't know what was the problem till now. Autohidded panels are blocking areas near his side of the screen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add a panel to the left and enable "Autohide panel" option 2.Launch Digikam and choose some images folder 3.Put Digikam at fullscreen (Ctrl+Shift+F) 4.Try to click with mouse pointer in some left side toolbar menu button Actual Results: Can't do any click on left toolbar Expected Results: To click on left side buttons Is an old bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199017 ***