Autohiding of the panel does not work, when I click on a task that is grouped (let's say one instance of firefox or a gimp window). Tested with firefox, gimp, xterm and kmail. Automatic group is enabled in the taskbar plugin and the panel is set to autohide. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open several windows of the same application 2. klick on a grouped icon 3. choose one of the tasks Actual Results: the panel does not hide anymore Expected Results: the panel should hide like always
Does it not hide even if you move your mouse on and off the panel again?
(In reply to comment #1) > Does it not hide even if you move your mouse on and off the panel again? I forgot to mention that. Yes, when moving the mouse on and off the panel, it hides.
There's not really anything we can do about that. The menu that pops up from the grouped task button 'eats' the mouse clicks and movement, so the panel doesn't know the mouse has moved.
(In reply to comment #3) > There's not really anything we can do about that. The menu that pops up from the > grouped task button 'eats' the mouse clicks and movement, so the panel doesn't > know the mouse has moved. Can the panel receive external commands? Then the popup menu would have to tell the panel somethink like "on click minimize".
The taskbar is a separate widget, so even the plugin doesn't know about the menu. Duplicating the effort of rewriting the tasklist widget does not sound like a solution to me. If a plugin knows about a menu, it can already register it and the panel will act appropriately when the menu closes. I really believe this cannot be fixed in a reasonable manner. If the plugin maintainer or someone else has a different opinion, please reopen the bug.