Vertical Gnome Panels

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Nickolai Toupikov
<nickolai.toupikov at deri.org> wrote:
> After pestering for over a year about the ever-shrinking vertical screen
> space available on modern laptops (16/10th down from 4/3 is not so
> pleasant when all one wants is to read a webpage comfortably), I tried
> pushing my Gnome panels to the sides in hope at least not to waste the
> little vertical space I have. Here, I can easily spare 140 pixels and
> have my window list displayed vertically. It looks actually very
> comfortable. However apart from the fact that the list behaves a bit
> weirdly when one opens new windows, I realized I can not tile
> horizontally launcher icons on the vertical bar. Instead of fitting
> neatly in lines of three, the 30px icons are expanded to their maximum
> size, which turns out to be an even bigger waste of space.

I use vertical bars on Jaunty as well, and I'm having a hard time
visualizing your problem.

Could you perhaps take a screenshot and post it up somewhere?
(don't send it to the list)

Brian