Comment 1 for bug 389407

Especially 1. seems to be a very old nuisance: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382

Ideally one would be able to choose between a common horizontal orientation of the task buttons or a vertical one, where the text is rotated by 90 degrees as happens to the menu button and the clock.

I think at least having the window list expand for the available space (see second part of 1.) should be quite easy to fix and would greatly improve usability for those who want to try a vertical panel.
Maybe you could just include the Netbook Remix feature where the buttons expand to fill the window list.

The User Switcher Applet is also not yet optimized for vertical use.

I will expand this report when i find out more.
Also please excuse any newbie errors - this is me finally trying to help with the development of my favorite OS :)
Thanks a lot already!