Bug#649770: gnome-panel: no way to remove dynamical space around clock applet

[Julian Andres Klode]

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


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