Comment 8 for bug 614650

I experience this bug as well, I prepared an intricate sequence of screenshots to show it until I figured out I wasn’t the only one nor the first one to report it. However, I did some more searching on Launchpad and I came that the conclusion that the issue we experience is identical to bug #631664, so I have taken the liberty to mark this bug as a duplicate of that one. According to that bug compiz is the culprit, I’ve verified that the problem goes away if I disable desktop effects (and comes back if you enable them again), so I’m quite sure that it is indeed the same issue. Could everyone commenting on this bug report verify this for themselves, is placement of the applets (for me it’s also the invest applet besides the clock applet) restored to the correct position once desktop effects are disabled? I also noticed that this problem only occurs if the panel containing the applet is located at the bottom, if it is at the top it doesn’t happen, even with compiz enabled. If anyone feels I was wrong in marking this bug as a duplicate, please reverse my action.