Menu: when 'force the panel to be visible' if off, opening the menu via keyboard shortcut soon opens the menu

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Distribution

Mint 22.3

Package version

Cinnamon 6.6.4

Graphics hardware in use

AMD on-board

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Auto-hide panel appears - after a short delay - upon pressing the menu shortcut even though 'force the panel to be visible' is set to 'off'.

Steps to reproduce

Have an autohide (top) panel.
Enable 'force the panel to be visible'.
Have a keyboard shortcut set up for the menu.
Have the pointer outside the trigger zone.
Press the shortcut.
Wait for approximately one second.
See the panel drop-down.

Expected behavior

The panel should not open (so long as the pointer is not in the trigger zone).

Additional information

Thank you for Zena.

I though that this bug existed in 22.2, and had a bug report, but I have failed to find the report.

X11 (not Wayland). Panel configuration not exotic.

[fredcw]

Duplicate of #12536

The ability to not show the panel was removed in #11779

The toggle in the menu applet should now be removed.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

@mtwebster

    The latest commit removes the misleading - because non-operational - option. That is good. However, now that (as of Zena) the panel shows every time that the menu does, how about blending the menu into the panel? At present, I see no blending (unless one counts the identity of colour between the menu's sidebar and the background of the panel's menu icon); and the result is a bit ugly. Screenshot, using Mint-Y-Dark: