Panel-hiding meta-bug: failures to hide; failures to unhide; other

Distribution

Mint 21.3, and some earlier versions

Package version

Various. 6.0.4 has at least some of the problems

Graphics hardware in use

Various

Frequency

Always

Bug description

False negative behaviour, i.e., the panel does not hide when it should hide

#9251
#9958
#11087
#11611

False positive behaviour, i.e., the panel hides when the panel should not hide

#8570
#11803

Other

#9930 (icon stretching with auto-hide)
#12111 (a problem with the auto-hide menu)

Steps to reproduce

Various. Please see the several reports.

Expected behavior

One expects such bread-and-butter stuff - for such is at issue with at least most of the bug reports - to work.

Additional information

All of the aforecited bug reports are open. Some have been labelled 'bugs' by the Mint team.

The oldest of the bug reports is five years old.

Fixing this stuff would be a considerable 'quality of life' improvement to Mint.

Review the referenced reports #9251, #9958, #11087, #11611, #8570, #11803, #9930, and #12111, beginning with their reproduction steps and current status. Compare the false-negative, false-positive, icon-stretching, and auto-hide-menu behaviours; done means the reported panel-hiding cases work consistently across the affected configurations.