Idea #5944: Permanently save panel applet positioning between panel states

Written by deadowl the 28 Mar 08 at 18:10. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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The GNOME Panel does not know how to save the positioning of its objects between states.

If I move a panel to the left or right side of the screen and back, it won't remember the previous alignment of panel applets.

If I go to a lower or higher resolution and back (which pretty much automatically happens when switching monitors), it won't remember the previous alignment of panel applets.

This has been bothering me for a long time, and I'm surprised I haven't found any brainstorm ideas on it (and one should be available to mark its precedence or lack of precedence as an issue), although I wouldn't be surprised if there were a bug report.

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vexorian wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 20:25

Most annoying gnome issue ever.

+1.

DShepherd wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 20:55

One of the most annoying..
+1

silwol wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 21:54

At least the order of the items should be saved. Sometimes after using a beamer with lower resolution than my default laptop screen, the items are sorted in a totally different order.

deadowl wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 22:08

Okay, that should be added: ordering should be maintained in states that have not yet been saved.

bgfeldm wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 00:39

Same thing happens on Microsoft Windows with the desktop icons, when you change resolution it moves all the icons to fit the screen, then when you move the resolution back every icon is grouped to a corner of the desktop.

Now for Ubuntu, it is a small annoyance but I would not classify it as a necessity. If fixed hardly anyone would use it daily or often at all.

deadowl wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 04:14

Oh believe me, I do this at least weekly.

Warbo wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 14:03

In my experience the panel doesn't even save positions between sessions! Try adding a load of icons to a panel which is not in "expand" (filling a whole edge) mode. Log out and back in and the icons will reorder.

Locking the icons doesn't help, in fact it just makes putting them back in order harder since they all need to be unlocked before they can be moved back.

baltho wrote on the 14 May 08 at 02:19

I agree, I find this extremely annoying, and it gets worse: not only does everything reorder itself in the panel, but the panel itself appears in the middle of my screen!
It's horizontal, not expanded, and at the top. I can fix it by setting Expand on and then off again, which repositions it to the top where it belongs, but leaves the icons in a seemingly random order.

deadowl wrote on the 17 Jun 08 at 01:30

I actually have the problem of the panel appearing in the middle of the screen when I'm switching monitors.

Rohnjoberson wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 19:13

This happens to me whenever a game needs to change the resolution. Very annoying.

Danners wrote on the 11 Aug 08 at 12:39

This happens to me every time I boot! The power button is floating around in the middle of the panel somewhere and all the other applets are in a random location, as said above locking them doesn't help, it just makes it more annoying when you need to reorder them.

Very irritating.

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