Power (log out) icon is lost when top panel orientation is changed to Left or Right

[Richard Bennett]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Using 10.04 Beta. Recommended nvidia driver (though I saw the same behaviour with the default driver.)

I right click the top panel, select properties and change orientation to Left. The power (logout) icon should now be in the bottom left hand corner, but it has vanished. The only way to get the icon back is to change the orientation back to Top or Bottom.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 19 22:55:11 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.29.92.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[Richard Bennett (rebenn5)]

Bit more investigation shows that the log out icon is there when the panel is on the left, it's just that it's to the right of the user icon and so is only displayed if the panel is wide enough. By default it will fall off the edge of the panel.

I would have expected the user and logout icons to be independent of each other, or at least for them to be placed vertically on top of one another when the panel is vertical.

It looks like a similar problem affects the volume and mail icons. When the panel is on the left only the volume icon can be seen.

Have changed the package the bug refers to from gnome-panel to indicator-applet.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Thanks for reporting. This issue was previously reported as bug #410254 and I'm marking your report as a duplicate of it. However, bug #498182 seems to be currently more relevant to the issue.