GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 546681
ability to add many/large applets that overlap
Last modified: 2010-10-05 23:42:19 UTC
Please describe the problem: Hello, recently I was going to add some applets, then I kept the dialog opened and added some applets. Once the all the space in the panel was occupied applets begun overlapping themselves and the panel had strange behaviors. This happens also with one big applet like the characters set one. Steps to reproduce: 1. Right click on a panel -> Add to panel 2. Select an applet 3. Click on Add twice until the all the space is being occupied 4. Try clicking on overlapped applets/launchers Actual results: All the space in the panel is occupied and the behavior of the panel becomes undefined and unexpected to the user. Expected results: I expect an error when trying to add an applet that's too big for the current available space in the panel. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
This bug has also been filed under the gnome-panel project on Launchpad for Ubuntu. The details, including more descriptions of the bug, can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/511603
Also, I forgot to mention in my last comment that the affected versions of Ubuntu this was confirmed on were 9.04 and 9.10 with GNOME 2.28.x.
Confirmed also on 10.04 with GNOME 2.30.2 I was bitten by this without manually overflowing the panel with launchers. All I did was rotate my display output to read a large PDF in full-screen mode. This forced the panel to become much smaller, and stuff started overlapping immediately. Suggested alternatives: 1. Expand the panel to a 2nd line for more real estate or 2. Create a "grouping" of panel launchers, hide them and make them accessible by a new icon (something like the window grouping behavior in M$-Windows XP & co) Cheers -A
Created attachment 171795 [details] This is what my panel regularly looks like, in un-rotated 1024x768
Created attachment 171796 [details] This is what happens when I rotate the display, turning the desktop to 768x1024 instead - notice Firefox icon overlaps with menus