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Bug 346368 - Should always have access to the whole content of the panel, even when the screen is too small
Should always have access to the whole content of the panel, even when the sc...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-01 19:06 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2006-07-01 19:06:42 UTC 
Observed in SUSE 10.0/GNOME 2.12.2 but likely present in newer releases too.

The notification area in SUSE 10 contains a RandR menu to dynamically switch resolution. When you use this to lower the resolution, the notification area may move out of view. And when you don't know how to handle xrandr from the command line, there is no way to reach the notification area to restore the previous resolution!

Proposed solution: the notification area should get priority treatment when deciding what applets to show when the resolution changes.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-01-17 21:14:45 UTC 
Hmm. I'm not sure this is so easy. There could be some other important stuff that shouldn't be moved. We have no way to know that the notification area was used to change the resolution, it could well be a launcher. Or the menu. Or an applet.

The real bug here is that when your panel is overcrowded, you lose access to some part of its content. I'm sure we have a bug like this already, but I can't find it.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:23:57 UTC 
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