On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:40:20AM +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: > On 11-23 22:23, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:10:38PM +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > Package: gnome-panel > > > Version: 3.2.1-1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > Clock applet is currently centered on panel, but it looks > > > that actually around applet is some kind of invisible applet / item, > > > which just changes width acording how other elements > > > takes space. > > > > > > You can move around it, but moving around other applets > > > and elements. But you cannot remove them, configure or add them. > > > > > > One should be able to Alt-Right-Click on this space and show > > > Move and Remove from panel in context menu. > > > > You can position a widget left, center, or right on the panel. It's > > not possible to place an applet at a freely-chosen position. I guess > > this is what you think to be a problem here[1]. > > > > [1] I guess we all know that gnome-panel 2.X was horribly broken > > WRT applet placement, at least for everyone using screens of > > multiple resolutions. > > > I see. So essentially there are 3 groups now, left, center and right, > and you can place applet in one of them, and change order of applets > in each group. > > It may look like nice improvement, but I know some people which was actually > happy and exploited old behaviour to freelly lay out activators > and applets in ways which are currently impossible to do. > Like increasing inter-activator space.
The problem with the free layout was that applets would move randomly when you resized the screen. More can be found at: http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/04/13/gnome-panel-is-dead%2C-long-live-gnome-panel%21 -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
