Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I do not like gaps in my panel, so if i want a gap, I use a separator. I have icons on the left & the right of my panel and I like them to stay as far right & left as possible even when I change my resolution (happens when I add a 2nd monitor, which happens when I dock my laptop).
xfce4 panel has this ability, it has a spacer item that can either be a fixed width, say 2px, or it can take up the remainder of the space, "pushing" all items away from it.
This would be especially nice as currently when I remove an applet from the panel, I must move every applet to the left or right to collapse the icons to take up the space it left behind.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 3 09:14:47 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
This maybe could be developed so that, instead of a pixel position, it could be a relative-to position, or have an option that when an item in a panel is removed, to shift all items after it by its pixel width (so check if the applet is right or left docked and then get all left & right panels with a position greater than the one being removed, and subtract the width of the one being removed from the remaining applets.