Bug#383624: entries misaligned (centred) after re-expand

[Drew Parsons]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.3-1
Severity: normal

Initially my gnome-panel (the one showing Applications Places Desktop
etc) is expanded along the top of the screen, with the menu entries
aligned from the left hand side. This way I know I can always get to
the Applications menu by throwing the mouse up towards the top-left
corner of the screen.  There is an empty gap in the centre with a
Notification Area on the far right side.

Playing with Panel Properties, I unclick Expand and the entries get
lined up tight-packed in a movable panel in the centre of the screen,
which is fine.

Then I click Expand again to get back to the original state, and now
to my chagrin I see all the menu entries have got themselves pushed
over to the right.  The empty space is on the left and the
Applications menu ends somewhere vaguely in the middle, making it
trouble to go straight to it.

I want the menu entries back on the left again.

Thanks,
Drew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                  2.14.3-1    The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center         1:2.14.2-2  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data           2.14.3-1    Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                  2.14.3-1    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data             2.14.3-1    common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2                 2.3.17-1    Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.1-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                 2.14.0-1    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0               2.14.0-4    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-19    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                    1.2.2-1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libecal1.2-6                 1.6.3-1     Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-7          1.6.3-1     Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-6        1.6.3-1     GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.14.0-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                  1:2.6.0-2   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2           2.14.3-1    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2               2.14.3-1    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.14.1-3    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0               2.14.2-1    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.20-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                    1:2.14.0-2  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0           2.14.3-1    library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                    2.14.3-1    Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-8   X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                      1:1.0.0-4   X11 authorisation library

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  evolution-data-server         1.6.3-1    evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.14.3-1   Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-session                 2.14.3-1   The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  menu-xdg                      0.2.3      freedesktop.org menu compliant win

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