Indicator applet only shows first item when in vertical panels

[David Given]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

If you set vertical orientation for a panel containing indicator applets (as in the default configuration), then only the first item is shown. See attached 1.png.

What's actually happening is that the applets aren't changing orientation, and are still displaying their icons horizontally --- expanding the panel reveals them; see 2.png. However, the default size of a vertical panel is such that the list of icons is clipped in a way that looks intentional. It isn't obvious where the icons have gone; they just appear to vanish. This is Bad.

(As you can see from the second screenshot, merely widening the panel isn't really a workaround to this due to the poor way in which other applets resize themselves; see the network monitor. The indicator applets ought to be displaying their icons vertically.)

(The striped background is #534582.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 19:19:59 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

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