Comment 10 for bug 275353

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 21 Apr 2011, at 13:41, Derek Price <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have no idea how hard this fix is to implement, but as a long time
> Ubuntu fan, I can say that this has been annoying me a long time, and
> usually does happen during initial setup of a new machine during all
> the
> monitor resizes in the monitor configuration step.  I also currently
> have Ubuntu setup inside a VMWare virtual machine which basically
> resizes the monitor to full screen mode every time I log in and the
> VMWare Tools application starts.  This leaves the applets that
> should be
> on the right sitting in the middle of my panels with every login.
> Unlocking and moving them all every login is a serious pain.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275353
>
> Title:
>  [Enhancement] Add a flexible spacer in the panel objects
>
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
>  New
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
>  It would be very great to add a flexible spacer in the panel objects
>  (right click to panel -> Add to Panel). I mean by "flexible spacer"
>  the possibility to add a spacer that takes all available space and
>  moves icons to one side or the other of the panel. XFCE's panel has
>  this useful option. Firefox's and Thunderbird's toolbars have it too.