System tray and clock widgets should not expand beyond what's needed

[Davor Cubranic]

Binary package hint: kdebase

Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (amd64)

When remove the task manager widget from the starting panel, system tray and clock widgets both expand to take up all available space. (see attached image) In 3.5, they would remain sized at their optimum size and let me put them in the right corner, leaving the rest of the panel for arranging other widgets.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

KDE's solution was to add a spacer widget feature to the panel configuration in KDE 4.3.

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

It's a pretty superficial solution because, unlike in 3.5, the user doesn't have the full width of the panel (minus the clock and tray in the corner) to arrange the remaining icons as seen fit. Instead, he has to manually fiddle with spacers whenever he wants to leave some room between widgets.

Honestly, I don't see a single reason why clock and systray need to auto-expand in width, but it sounds like I should file a bug with kde.org and see their response.

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

Filed in KDE as bug 211167. (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211167)