Just my 2 cents: Some people here have discussed the options: relative positioning, keeping track of positions with different resolutions, flexible spaces, etc.
However, as some others have pointed out already, gnome already _has_ a great scheme, which is actually working very well: the panel_right_stick boolean. It's even possible to give the positions as an index instead of pixels (so, 0, 1, 2, 3) which allows for relative positioning. The problem is that upon resize, the panel disregards your settings and rewrites (some of) them with the panel_right_stick set to False and calculates the exact pixel offset. Upon switching to a greater resolution your applets keep this exact offset and everything is messed up. One workaround mentions to set one particular settings file to read- only, thus preventing gnome to touch (i.e. mess up) your applet positioning. My question (and our problem, I believe) is this: why on earth won't gnome just leave my applet settings alone? I paid particular attention to the fact that my applets don't run into each other when switching to a lower resolution so I see no reason _at all_ to change the settings. -- Applets do not scale well with changing resolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36189 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
