Workrave applet appears badly in system tray
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Xfce4 Panel |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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xfce4-panel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xfce4-panel
Workrave is a gnome app which provides a system tray applet, which is my preferred mode of display. However, this applet is flexibly-sized but xfce4-panel (as of Jaunty) no longer allows applets to take up more than one icon's worth of space. As a result, the timers are basically unusable.
The workaround is to use the floating-window timer display instead, but I'd much rather have it integrated into my xfce panel instead.
Oddly enough, when I take a screenshot with 'import,' the timer ends up leaking out of its constrained window and clobbering a bunch of other stuff on the panel (and still being unusable), but on my actual screen it's constrained to a tiny icon-sized area.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: xfce4-panel 4.6.0-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
Changed in xfce4-panel: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
With respect, this is NOT a duplicate of that bug - the issue with this bug is that some panel applets want to draw to a region that is non-square. The "artifacts" only appear when I try to take a screenshot, and if they have anything to do with the video driver it is only ancillary to the bug.
Please, run Workrave under gnome for a bit, and then again under xfce. Workrave wants to draw to a rectangular region (I'm not sure of the exact metrics but it's about a 4:1 aspect ratio) while the Xfce panel ends up cropping it to a 1:1 aspect.
Thank you.