Clock window appearing outside of screen when panel is vertical in Maverick

Bug #658791 reported by Erik Miranda
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Issue:
I have one panel arranged vertically along the left side of my screen. The clock applet is placed on the top of the panel (thus on the top-left corner of the screen). When I click on the clock to get the window with the calendar, timezones, etc., it appears completely off-screen (I see the shadow of the window appear at the top of my screen). It seems that, instead of the top of the window being aligned with the top of the screen, the *bottom* of the window is aligned with the top of the screen.

Expected:
The calendar/time-zone window should appear with the top of the window aligned with the top of the screen so that the window is completely within screen bounds.

Details:
I have used this layout previously in Lucid, Karmic, and Jaunty. This is the first time I've seen this behaviour. Seems like a regression to me. I upgraded by wiping my partition and performing a full install from the Maverick AMD64 LiveCD.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 11 19:00:39 2010
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[applet_4,applet_0,clock_screen0,applet_2,applet_1,applet_5]
 /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[menu_bar_screen0,object_1,object_0]
 /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[top_panel_screen0]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ja:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel

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Erik Miranda (erikmiranda) wrote :
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Crucias (chris-pacey) wrote :

I get this too. Upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 10.10. Only occurs when clock is on bottom panel.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, could you take an screenshot of the issue? Thanks.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Erik Miranda (erikmiranda) wrote :

Screenshot as requested. You can barely see the shadow of the clock window along the top on the left.

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Mark Domingo (mark-domingo) wrote :

I also have the same problem, using a single Gnome panel at the bottom. Aligning this panel to the top shows the whole calendar popup.

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Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :

I confirm this bug also (screenshot attached).

When the clock-applet is moved to the bottom panel-bar, it does not render its calendar/world-time popup in the correct position. Adding multiple timezone locations seems to exacerbate the problem: the window-height seems to be a factor.

This is a regression from Lucid -- the calendar popup worked fine on the bottom panel-bar until upgrade to Maverick.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :

== Regression details ==
Discovered in version: maverick
Last known good version: lucid

tags: added: regression-release
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rvgsd (rvgsd-id1) wrote :

Any work-arounds for this bug??

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Paweł Miniewicz (pawel-miniewicz) wrote :

I found following TODO in the code:
"Do everything backwards if the clock is on the bottom"
So I think there is no simple workaround.

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Niclas Fagerholm (hu5h55) wrote :

Just confirming with screenshot.

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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote :

My dup Bug #691667 incl. screenshots.

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Jonathan Nielsen (jmnet) wrote :

Confirming with screenshot - panel on left side, clock at bottom, netbook resolution (1024x600). Ubuntu 10.10.

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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote :

Workarounds described in Bug #631664.
Comments #10 + #37

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