gnome clock applet rotated on vertical panel

[Andy Balaam]

Create a panel in Gnome
Drag it to the left-hand side of the screen, so that it sticks there as a vertical panel
Right-click it and select "Add to Panel"
Choose the clock applet
The clock applet is displayed, but the writing is rotated sideways.

I would expect the writing on the clock applet to be the right way up.

[neutrico (neutrico)]

could you provide screenshot of this wrong behaviour and describe more clearly what do you expect from this applet?

On my dapper when I put panel on the left-hand side of the screen then clock is rotated and also main menu is - and I think that this is ok - I could see clock and main menu entries when I got panel with 28px on the left....

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's not a bug but a feature. The label used to not be rotated (ie: horizontal on screen) and that pushed the panel limit to something ugly. There is a bug open upstream about using the rotation only when appropriate: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318377

[Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds)]

Thanks Sebastien. Since older versions did not do this I assumed it was a bug. As a feature I personally think it's fairly brain-dead, but hey :) I'll follow the upstream bug.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This has been fixed upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 gnome-panel (2.15.91-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Panel:
     - Don't block when X is killed
     - Use GtkRecent
     - Don't use GnomeDesktopItem where possible
     - New dialog to edit launchers
     - Don't show error about not found icons multiple times per launcher
     - Use new icons
     All applets:
     - Use new icons
     Clock Applet:
     - Only display vertical text on vertical panels when the panel is not
       wide enough for horizontal text
     Fish Applet:
     - Use new animation for Wanda
     Notification Area Applet:
     - Integrate the tray manager code and kill libegg
     Misc:
     - New icons!
     - Update bugzilla informations
     - Wncklet applets don't depend on gnome-desktop
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated GTK requirement to 2.10
   * debian/patches/01_layout.patch:
     - updated, the Desktop menu has been renamed to System upstream now
   * debian/patches/06_applets_category.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/09_lpi_src.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/10_some_applets_in_proc.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/12_autoconf.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/13_notification_area_transparency.patch:
     - updated

[RomanIvanov (ivanov-jr)]

Almost make this bug as reopen.

To make clock horizontal in vertical panel you need to make panel wide enough, in my case(Ubuntu 9.10) it is 44 pixels.