Comment 28 for bug 43066

It is unbelievable that this bug is still existing! That it what makes Linux so uncomfortable to use for most of the people, lots of cool and innovative features but it seems that most of them are poor implemented and buggy. Not only that, the bugs are not getting fixed were it appears to be easy.

I am using Linux now for a couple of years now and have a vertical panel in gnome for quite some, this bug is really annoying and should be addressed soon - priority high -, as it is a really fundamental problem. By the way, I am using the gnome-panel-fix script described here http://www.osfight.de/archives/92 (in german), which worked so far for me on 8.04 - 9.04.