KDE4.2 beta panel is unable to sort icons

[Bruno Guedes]

Using Kubuntu jaunty (alpha2)..

Since in alpha2 the manual partitioner is broken, i installed Kubuntu 8.10, ugraded it and then did sudo do-release-upgrade -d.

As far as i know i the upgrade went ok, and afterwards the installation was working quite well, quite fast and no bugs that i could find. However, after i rebooted Jaunty became very slow and the Panel does not work.

All the icons were shoved to the left corner(Kicker, Home folder shortcut, virtual desktop list, system tray, recycle bin, removable devices ico and finally the clock. If i try to move them around the cannot be placed in their proper corners (ie, the clock and system tray do not move to the right hand corner). Trying to move them only results in shifting their relative positions on left side.

Also, open, minimized or maximized window icons do not show up at all, forcing me to use ALT+TAB or having the desktop full of non-maximized windows.

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

You can resize your panel by "unlocking" widgets, then click the widget bubble in the bottom right corner, then drag the red arrow to the left.
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Alternatively, you can reset all your preferences by removing your .kde directory. Warning, this will remove all kde saved preferences.

Dan

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hello Bruno!

Thank you for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better! Could you please tell us if Dan's suggestion has solved your issue? Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The task manager widget must have somehow gotten deleted from your panel. You can re-add this widget from the add widgets dialog and everything should be fine again.