GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131332
Applications, Actions menu, icons on main panel disppears with workspace applet movement.
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:19:46 UTC
I am running Gnome community head build(2.5.2), dated 07th Jan 2004 on linux. Steps to reproduce: 1. Invoke Workspace Switcher applet by right click on main panel Select ->Add to Panel->Utility->Workspace Switcher. 2. Workspace Switcher applet comes up, 3. Right click on Workspace Switcher, Select Preferences, 4. Increase the number of workspace to 30 or more, 5. Observe that Applications, Action menu and icons are visible on main panel. 6. Move the workspace applet to bottom/egde panel and back to main panel. Observe that workspace switcher applets occupies full main panel area hence Application, Action menu and all icons on main panel disppears. Expected result: Menus and icons in main panel should not disappear when workspace switcher is moved.
This is a total edge case. Read on for my sympathy, but then notice I cant offer much of a realistic expected behaviour. I confirmed that this can happen... (sort of). I added 36 workspaces (chosing to display them in a single row), which seems to be the maximum the applet will allow, then followed the procedure above. I have a widescreen display, so the entire top panel wasn't displaced. I am pretty positive had I not had a widescreen aspect display, it would have produced the same results as listed above. When adding these workspaces the applet grows mercillessly without consideration to its fellow applets. I think the problem here is just that this applet needs to resepct phsycical constraints of your screen. If you were only allowed to add workspaces until the applet would infringe on another applets space, then this would not be an issue. This is definitely a weird bug. It's not something most users would ever run into, but if I'm not mistaken it's an example of a bigger problem. The problem is applets don't consider thier sizes, and users can add items to panels that do not have enough room to accomodate. Removing the applet will restore everything to a usable state. In reality this is an incredible edge case and I don't see a straightforward solution to it. Perhaps simply limmiting the workspace switcher to fewer allowable workspaces by default (something like a gconf key to limmit it)? If I were the maintainer it would be a wontfix.
It's definitely an edgecase, but the solution is probably to just make it fix- shrink the desktops or otherwise scroll.
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