For people who still want a Gnome2-like desktop with a vertical panel like the one described in this bug report:
We have recently extended the the Xfce (Xubuntu) panel to support a vertical panel/horizontal items layout. Changes go well beyond the tasklist. Starting from Xfce 4.10, vertical "deskbar" is one of three supported panel modes and all plugins are (expected to be) aware of it. To see how it works, you need to change the panel "mode" and "number of rows" (a bit unfortunate name - in vertical panels "rows" are "columns"). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43066 Title: Window list behaves bad when panel is vertical. Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Confirmed Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “libwnck” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Ubuntu dapper Use default panel settings. Put gnome-panel that contains window list on right or left edge of screen. Also drag gnome-panel that is on top to some side of the screen. You will see a lot of weird behaviour there. Window list will be almost unusable when panel height is small - only icons are visible, and text with application names is invisible because these buttons are not rotated 90degrees. While clock and main menu (applications/places/system) will be rotated and text will be visible. Someone should provide some HIG standard to these panel elements while panel is vertical. In fact I'm not sure which behaviour is better... Window list is almost unusable, but also clock and main menu that is rotated is not comfortable at all :-) Please provide some better ideas or just block an ability to put gnome-panel on right/left edge. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/43066/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
