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gnome-panel package

clock does not reclaim free space (pixels) on the right

Bug #42772 reported by Olivier Cortès
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GNOME Panel
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

graphical annoyance : I once positionned clock applet "0 pixel" near mixer applet. As time passes by, due to the non-monospaced font, clock label is larger at certain times (22:22 is larger (pixel-wise) than 11:11 for example).

The applet does not reclaim "free space", so there is a gap (apparently empty space, but in fact it is embedded in the applet) between clock and mixer :

http://deep-ocean.net/captures/clock/clock-applet-padding-right-4.png

(notice the -normal- 2 pixels left-padding and the -too large- 4 or 5 pixels right padding when doing mouse-over)

I think the applet should reclaim this unused space. I remember it did in GNOME 2.12, but i could have been dreaming it did ;)

Occasionnaly, right clicking on the applet at different times of day makes it actually reclaim this "free space", but it doesn't happen every time i try (it seems to work only when I have not clicked for a long period of time, but i can't confirm this).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

THanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use. That looks like a minor detail, updating settings according to that. The screenshot has not gap between the applets, do you speak of the gap of the clock applet between the label and applet border?

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Olivier Cortès (olive) wrote :

Dapper, kept up-to-date every day. Yes, i speak about the gap between label and applet border.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341236

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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rai4shu2 (rai4shu2) wrote :

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319149

It is trivial, but it is annoying. I'd really appreciate it if someone could pull this thorn out of gnome-panel's paw.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Olivier Cortès (olive) wrote :

This still happens in feisty, and there even is no way to reclaim the pixels by clicking on the applet, like i could do in dapper.
In edgy the behaviour was the same as in dapper.

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Olivier Cortès (olive) wrote :

Hi, just a "ping" to say it's still present in Gutsy... My machine has been up for some days, clock applet is slowly "eating" pixels on the panel... (see attached cature)

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rai4shu2 (rai4shu2) wrote :

In Gnome, I find that you are forced to run with "Show date" unchecked. The change of date makes this bug more severe than it must seem to upstream (whose default is unchecked IIRC rather than checked in Ubuntu).

I'd really like to see this fixed given how annoying it is and how easily it can be fixed.

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rai4shu2 (rai4shu2) wrote :

It seems developers are ignoring this bug even when weather and temperature features are put into it.

Shouldn't bugs have a higher priority than features?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

You're welcome to submit patches in order to fix the issue. Raising the priority will not make a difference though.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Olivier Cortès (olive) wrote :

Hi,

this bug is still present on Latest Intrepid (see attached screenshot). I'm uploading the screenshot to upstream bugtracker too.

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Hans Rødtang (hansrodtang) wrote :

Still present in Jaunty. This bug is really getting on my nerves, I see myself right-clicking and pressing "Preferences" (which fixes it) once or twice a day.

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Mo-Yu Mandy Zhou (zhou-mandy) wrote :

Still happening in Lucid. I understand that it's a minor problem, but I agree with Hans in that it really gets on my nerves. It's taking away screen space and makes the applet look unpolished.

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importance: Unknown → Low
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