Indicator Panel grows to the left

[Miles Prower]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

The applet tends to gain space to the left after a while.

Appearing / disappearing icons seem to trigger this: copying files, receiving a message from pidgin (set to display a status icon when the window is inactive only) creates new icons in the panel. When they are removed, the indicator-applet gains 1 or 2 pixels to the left and starts to grow.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This wont happen on the default install. this happens after you move the applets or play with them a bit. the solution is that close each and every running app, move indicator applet to the extreme right as far its possible, lock it then move notification area to the extreme right as far as its possible and lock and it wont happen again.

[Miles Prower (mprower)]

That's the default install with only the network manager applet removed (NM removed via APT). I never touched the icons in any other way, never tried to organize them, and the applet is already set to the extreme right - and is put back to the right at each new session login, then grows again.

Some activity is needed to see this happing on a default install. Try opening / closing Rhythmbox multiple times (50 or so), or frequently copying files. The gap should become obvious between the separator and the rest of the applet.

Another possibility is that this bug is linked to the Pidgin icon only, could not tell when I opened this report, as there was quite a lot of activity going on in the applet at the time. I'll do further testing to try and determine this.

[Miles Prower (mprower)]

Seems to be actually pidgin-related and a duplicate of bug #545292

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/545292