On ven., 2011-05-13 at 22:48 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > Package: xfce4-panel > Version: 4.8.3-2 > Severity: normal > > It seems to be no longer possible to have a (horizontal) panel that would be > docked to an edge of screen, and at the same time appear above any maximized > application windows, instead of reducing the desktop area size by the panel's > height. > > This is a crucial feature for me, as I have a monitor/sensors/weather panel on > top of all windows since Xfce 4.6. > > But in 4.8 there seems to be no way to have such panels. Now unless the panel > is set to autohide, when it's docked to a screen edge, it instantly reduces > the desktop area size (that maximized windows occupy) by that panel's height. > This is very silly for a panel which is only about 150 pixels wide (~15% of > the screen width). > > I suggest that a docked panel does not change the desktop area size unless > that panel is more than (let's say) 50%-wide.
Fwiw, it's fixed in xfce4-panel master (so future 4.10), see https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7202. It's not reallu backportable to 4.8 I think. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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