Bug#253225: gnome-panel: windowlist applet vanishes and re-appears consistently

[Adar Dembo]

Marc,
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   Sorry for taking so long to respond, but I am away from my home=20
workstation, so I tried very hard to reproduce the problem through VNC,=20
and I was successful. I took a set of screenshots to help explain the=20
problem.

   The first (http://www.stanford.edu/~adar/images/1.png) shows my deskto=
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with the window list at the top containing an instance of calculator and=20
gedit. The second (http://www.stanford.edu/~adar/images/2.png) shows the=20
location that I must click to get the desired behavior. It is a very thin=
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(perhaps 1px wide) strip at the top of the window list, spanning its whol=
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length. Image three (http://www.stanford.edu/~adar/images/3.png) shows=20
exactly what happens when I click there. The entries in the window list=20
vanish, but my applications are still intact. Finally, in image five=20
(http://www.stanford.edu/~adar/images/5.png), I click on where the=20
calculator entry used to be in the window list, and the entries return!

   Let me know if you need any additional information.

-Adar

Quoting Marc Dequ=C3=A8nes <Duck@DuckCorp.org>:

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> Coin,
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> Adar Dembo <adar@stanford.edu> writes:
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> > Hello,
> > 	If I left-click on the window list in a position not occupied by
> > a window entry, the entire set of entries vanishes. That is, the pane=
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> > section occupied by the window list applet becomes empty. However, th=
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> > window list is still there. If I then click on a different window
> entry
> > (to change focus), the window list reappears. So, when I accidentally
> > mis-click and cause the window list to disappear, I can click on a
> spot
> > that I remembered to contain some entry in the window list, which wil=
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> > bring that app into focus and bring back the window list.
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> I really don't see where you click, the only empty area i see is the
> separator between the current window and the others, and was unable to
> generate any bug. Could you send a screenshot please, to show the
> different steps ?
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> Thx
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> Marc Dequ=C3=A8nes (Duck)
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