Bug#513786: gnome-panel: Window List broken in Vertical Panels Less Than 30 Pixels Wide

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Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.20.3-5
Severity: important

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If the panel is placed in a vertical position, on the side of the
screen, and the panel width is less than 30 pixels, the window list
buttons display no useable information. The only thing that appears are
two dots "..", which makes every button appear the same. Hence you have
no idea which button coordinates to which open window, rendering the
window list completely useless. Ideally, in this circumstance icons
would appear and the text in the buttons would reorient vertically.

This is a known bug in Gnome that has existed for years and never been
addressed. See:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382

There are also other problems with how the window list performs in a
vertical panel that is wider than 30 pixels (also described in the above
Gnome bug report).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.22.3-2      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.20.3-2    utilities to configure the
GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.22.3-2      Common files for GNOME 2
desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                2.22.2-4      an implementation of the
freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.20.3-5      common files for the GNOME
Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.7-16        GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-6.1     The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.76-1        simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7               2.22.3-1.1    Client library for
evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9        2.22.3-1.1    Utility library for
evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8      2.22.3-1.1    GUI utility library for
evolution
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.3-2      Utility library for
loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.22.2-4      an implementation of the
freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-5    GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-4     The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.20.3-5      library for GNOME Panel
applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-3      Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libwnck22                  2.22.3-1      Window Navigator
Construction Kit
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-3     X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.3           freedesktop.org menu
compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.11.5-1   easy GNOME menu editing
tool
ii  evolution-data-server         2.22.3-1.1 evolution database backend
server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.20.1-2   Various applets for GNOME 2
panel
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.22.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.20.3-2   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  gnome-system-tools           2.20.0-2    Cross-platform
configuration utili
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-e 2.22.3-3    The GNOME 2 terminal
emulator appl
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-use 2.22.1-1    GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                     2.20.0-7    file manager and graphical
shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]  235-1       X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

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