GUI: Autohide pane

[quant]

It would be nice if panes could "autohide" ... I'm working on a small screan, and it's a bit of a pain to click to show and then click to hide everytime I need to see bookmarks, comments pane or search pane ...

thanks

(please, don't advise me to use keyboard shorcuts, thanks Bhikkhu )

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi quant,

OK i will not suggest you to use keyboard shortcuts

Seriously now, for the moment there are no plans to add autohide functionality to those menus you mentioned, but our devs told me that in ver 43.x it might find a place in the schedule. Since then clicking is your best bet I presume.

Regards,
Stefan

[Giraffe]

One of the (many) things that I appreciate about Opera is that one can just swing the mouse to the edge of the screen and click and the Panels disappear; the Panel Toggle stays there, so a repeat procedure opens the Panels again.

It's a very simple procedure that needs no precision - one doesn't even have to look.

ISTR that Maxthon had auto-hide, but haven't used IE for years.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Agreed.

OpenOffice suffers from the same problem, as do all Serif™ products that use a side panel. When you click the button to open the panel, the button moves to a different postion which is then hard to click to close it again.

It may seem like a small detail, but if you use it a hundred times a day it becomes a significant issue.

A fixed toggle strip is more efficient than autohide. The problem with autohide is that all too often it works when you don't want it to, just when you're moving the mouse out of the way, the panel pops up

In Opera, I turned off the toggle strip, and use a mouse gesture instead, which is even better. It works wherever the pointer is, but is hard to do by accident.

[Giraffe]

Agreed.

A fixed toggle strip is more efficient than autohide. The problem with autohide is that all too often it works when you don't want it to, just when you're moving the mouse out of the way, the panel pops up

In Opera, I turned off the toggle strip, and use a mouse gesture instead, which is even better. It works wherever the pointer is, but is hard to do by accident.

Yes, Autohide can be a bit contrary - as Mrs. Weasley didn't say: "Automation always has consequences".

I'm not too good with gestures, due to using a trackball for so long (can't get a mouse big enough for my hand), so prefer the click.