What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Place the navigation control on the left side of the pane, using code
like the following:

  ge.getNavigationControl().getScreenXY().setXUnits(ge.UNITS_PIXELS);
  ge.getNavigationControl().getScreenXY().setYUnits(ge.UNITS_INSET_PIXELS);


2. Set the navigation control visibility to AUTO:

  ge.getNavigationControl().setVisibility(ge.VISIBILITY_AUTO);


What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?

The expected behavior is that the control becomes transparent except for
the border of the control.  When the mouse hovers the control the opacity
comes back and the control is fully visible again.

Instead of the behavior described above, when the control is on the left
side of the viewport it remains in it's clear state instead of the hover
making it fully visible again.  I notice, however, that with the control on
the left, if you move the mouse to the right side of the viewport it makes
the control (on the other side) become visible, like it should, but the
mouse isn't over it...


Which plugin version are you using?

5.0.11738.1858


Which browsers and operating systems are affected?

On windows XP: FF 3.0.11, IE 7, 8.

I have not tested any others.


Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.

That is the major problem, as described above.  I am not sure if this will
help, however, I am not using the plugin by itself, but alongside the
Google Maps API and getting the instance with GMap.getEarthInstance().  I
do not think this is an issue, however, as the same issue can be seen here:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#show/hide_navigation_controls

On a side note, I do not think the navigation controls should be partially
BEHIND the map type control, but below it.  If that could be fixed it would
be much more usable, since the "N" feature is completely hidden by this
when the navigation control is in the top right partially below the map
type control.