GNOME interface with vertical alignment of panels/applets etc.

[Alexey Balmashnov]

This is not a real bug report but a feature request.

Nowadays, more and more devices are equipped with wide screens, where the available wide space on the screen may be nicely utilized using possible vertical alignment for DE controls, especially for more o less standard 1280x800, 1024x600 notebook and netbook(!) panel resolutions. Currently, components composing GNOME interface are not really suitable for vertical alignment. Just try it out, and you will see what I mean. Some points w.r.t. vertical alignment:
- there is no (at least straight-forward) way to assign fixed size for icons on the panels, they are scaled with the width of the panel
- icons on the panel are aligned vertically, there is no way (?) to change this
- window list applet application buttons: size is scaled strangely
- clock applet aligns text vertically until it might fit o_O
- some icons (like in nm-applet, widow selector applet) do not scale
- notification area applet: aligns with the panel, not possible to align it horizontally
- widening of the vertically aligned panel really screws everything

To conclude: I tried it out a few times, but it seems that there is no way to come up with kind of nice and usable composition for desktop interface elements if one wants interface based on vertical alignment of components, although an option for such alignment is kinda available.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, most of your concerns are known issues, vertical panels, alignments, etc. Please for the next time only raise one concern per report, that way we can track them better, thanks. Anyways marking this as dup of bug 43232 , thanks.