Panel has broken look when set to the side

[André]

Lubuntu 16.04, lxpanel 0.8.2, Lenovo Y700.

The panel becomes horribly broken (albeit functional) when I set it to the side.

Scenario:
* Right click the panel on the bottom of the screen.
* Panel settings.
* Change position to "left".

Although every component of the panel is still there, they all look misaligned and in the case of the task bar, broken.

Specifically:
* The battery icon is aligned to the left, the wireless signal icon is almost centered, but not quite, the shutdown icon is left-aligned. All other icons are center-aligned.
* The background of the panel consists of blocky rectangles, and the task bar icons don't necessarily align with these icons.

The expected behavior would be for the icons to be aligned correctly (centered) and for the rectangles behind everything to not be there, as is the case when the panel is on the bottom of the screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lxpanel 0.8.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-13.29-generic 4.4.5
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Config_Home_Lubuntu:
 [Command]
 Logout=lxsession-default quit
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Thu Mar 17 21:25:53 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160316)
SourcePackage: lxpanel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[LStranger (andrej-rep)]

As for "rectangles" - it is not a bug but a side effect of image chosen for background - default one isn't well designed for a vertical panel, and since it's tiled, it got a bit odd look, and you can solve that by configuring another background.

As for alignments - that is definitely wrong, alignment should be consistent for all items, thank you very much for the report.

[André (andreluis-g-silva)]

Fair enough, in regards to the image.

I've since kept the vertical panel, and the alignment is still wrong. Further, I've noticed that the Internet connection icon is completely absent in the vertical panel, but this again seems to just be a consequence of incorrect alignment.