Testing Panel Intelligent Hiding

[Elfy]

On 10/12/14 16:35, Elfy wrote:
> As mentioned previously on the list [1] we are only specifically 
> calling for testing as things turn up needing testing.
>
> So - this is the first one of those. This is available for testing in 
> Trusty, Utopic and Vivid. So not using the dev version shouldn't hold 
> anyone back here ;)
>
> The staging ppa [2] holds these packages.
>
> Currently there are a few updated packages there, currently we are 
> only interested in one : xfce4-panel.
>
> This includes intelligent hiding - and it is this that we are wanting 
> testing.
>
> /sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-staging/
> /sudo apt-get update /
> /sudo apt-get install xfce4-panel /
>
> restart the panel from Alt +F2 using
>
> /xfce4-panel --restart/
>
> Go to Panel Preferences > Display and set Automatically hide the panel 
> to /Intelligently/
>
> The panel should only hide when a window (maximised for instance) 
> would cover the panel.

and in focus
> Moving an un-maximised window over the panel should also hide the panel.

Hovering over the panel when hidden should reveal it.
>
> Please test this for at least a few days.
>
> If you do happen across a bug, please report that upstream [3] and 
> make sure to add Intelligent Hiding to the bug title.
>
> You can also reply to this thread with a link to that reported bug.
>
>
> If you've not got ppa-purge installed, now might be a good time for that.
>
> To remove the panel we are testing run
>
> /sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-staging/
>
> thanks
>
>
> [1] 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2014-November/010491.html
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/xubuntu-staging
> [3] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xfce4-panel
>
>

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