Bug#800004: mate-panel: Order of "launcher" icons on panel accidentally randomly changes on login

[Sergio]

Package: mate-panel
Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-3
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I observe this issue for years, it is minor but very annoying. If I booted and
logged in into fresh installed Gnome2/Mate, added some "launcher buttons"
("icons") to panel in order I prefer, then there is large chance on next boot
and login into desktop I find them in exactly reversed order or messed in some
other way. Not sure, but I think the same goes for applets.
So user have to right-click each icon and applet and choose "lock to panel"
just to make them be in constant order and avoid shuffling.
I doubt if panel's "default behaviour" with buttons randomly jumping on every
boot has sense for anybody...



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-panel depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk0                             0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libdconf1                                    0.22.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.5.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                  2.24.25-3
ii  libice6                                      2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17                         1.8.1+dfsg1-3+deb8u1
ii  libmate-menu2                                1.8.0-5
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1                     1.8.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libmateweather1                              1.8.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                            1.36.8-3
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.5-1
ii  libsm6                                       2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-4
ii  libwnck22                                    2.30.7-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii  mate-desktop                                 1.8.1+dfsg1-3+deb8u1
ii  mate-menus                                   1.8.0-5
ii  mate-panel-common                            1.8.1+dfsg1-3
ii  mate-polkit                                  1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  menu-xdg                                     0.5
ii  python                                       2.7.9-1

mate-panel recommends no packages.

mate-panel suggests no packages.

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