Comment 4 for bug 36189

Aaron: definitely yes, this is the same problem.

Sebastien Bacher wrote on 2005-02-15:
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"perhaps they will work on this for 2.12".

Is there something I could read on the current applet position model? Where does gnome-panel store information about applets and launchers? I would like at least try to understand what the problem is.