When upgrading from gnome 2.16 to gnome 2.18, the clock applet appearance got a regression. I am using one desk bar in vertical right orientation, 24 pixel size. The date time fields are now not correctly aligned in any vertical orientation: in right orientation the time field being shifted up partly outside drawing area and the date field is anyway not really aligned with the Applications/Shortcuts/System field, in left orientation it is the same when exchanging date and time in previous phrase. Same behavior in different languages (American English, French). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gnome-base/gnome 2.18.2-r1 2. Add a clock 2.18.3 applet on the desk bar 3. Put the desk bar in right or left orientation, 24 pixel size Actual Results: bad alignment of clock date and time fields, partly not visible. Expected Results: same desk bar alignment quality as in an horizontal orientation
Can you please try with pango-1.16.5 and report back? That should have a fix for it, and I'm about to ask stabilization of it soon.
It is definitively better and really acceptable on that issue. To be picky, on right orientation, clock fields are slightly higher than Applications Shortcuts System fields, and on left orientation slightly below. It is slightly disturbing visually. Anyway, thanks.
(In reply to comment #2) > It is definitively better and really acceptable on that issue. > To be picky, on right orientation, clock fields are slightly higher than > Applications Shortcuts System fields, and on left orientation slightly below. > It is slightly disturbing visually. I took a screenshot and looked at this on my system with magnification and selecting in gimp. And I can say that at least on my system the baseline is at exactly the same position for the clock and for the main menubar (Applications, Places, System menus in words) for both left or right vertical panel. Pixel-perfectly. If that isn't the case for you, you can pursue a solution in the upstream bugzilla. Considering this as fixed, as the pango that fixes the big difference is even stabilized on many arches already. Thanks for the bug report
