Gnome Drawer causes Gnome Panel to crash when changing size near edge of screen

Bug #16395 reported by Kevin J Brown
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Applets
Won't Fix
Critical
gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

1)Create a vertical panel that touches the top of the screen
2)Add a drawer to the panel
3)Change the size of the drawer to its smallest value
4)put the drawer at the top of the panel
5)increase the size of the drawer

Causes gnome panel/applets to freeze

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303412: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303412

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

right, I've opened a bug upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303412

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Donald Haage (dhaage) wrote :

I had the applet near the edge of the screen. The only time I was able to crash
it was on size 70 and 71. 69 and 72 were fine along with the other numbers I
tested.

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Changing to Confirmed as others have confirmed this. The GNOME BT has comments mentioning workarounds (the last comment).

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-applets:
importance: Unknown → Critical
Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in gnome-applets (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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