please help promote my ubuntu brainstorm

Idea #30735: toggle unity panel autohide or intellihide



IF the ubuntu philosophy is to have a "clean" "elegant" desktop, free of clutter, some users want to use their entire screen for their content, especially since so many laptops are in use these days.

it irks me that i cannot autohide the top panel like i have always been able to do in linux(until unity/gnome3). give us back this choice, but with an improvement.

it would be more consistent with the design philosophy of ubuntu touch. clean desktop where content is king, with the panel out of the way until you need it.


Solution #1: add a setting to the appearance settings

there would be an option with a clear graphic that you are changing the behavior of the top panel.

the options would be, autohide, intellihide and double click to toggle autohide/intellihide.

maybe a popup button to select the panel's behavior, with a checkbox/radiobutton for toggle, and a slider for reveal sensitivity, like the dock.


if you believe this functionality is useful to users while still preserving the current defaults, please add some votes to this idea. it is currently marked as a duplicate, but it's not a duplicate of the other idea at all, not even close.

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