I recently upgraded to Fedora 8 (gnome-panel-2.20.2-1.fc8), and I started experiencing an annoying layout issue with the Window List applet. The preference for setting the maximum window size has been removed from the GUI, and /etc/gconf/schemas/window-list.schemas has the following note: "The use of this key was deprecated in GNOME 2.20. The schema is retained for compatibility with older versions." Unfortunately, the new hard-coded behavior results in annoyingly narrow buttons for each window. Many of the applications I typically use (Firefox, gnome-terminal, emacs) have rather long window titles, and the most useful part (to distinguish one window of the same application from another) is often near the end. In Fedora 7, I had the Window List applet configured to use the entire horizontal space available to it on the panel. With Fedora 8, even if I only have two or three applications open, I get these narrow buttons in the Window List, and they are crammed over in the lower-left-hand corner of the screen. (My lower panel is 48 px tall, to allow plenty of room for readable labels in the window list.) Can the default behavior be changed to make better use of the available space, or the sizing configuration options restored?
This is still a problem in gnome-panel-2.22.2-1.fc9.x86_64. With gnome-panel-2.20.3-1.fc8, sometimes I see the correct layout when I am changing workspaces, but as soon as I click on the window list, the narrow windows reappear. There seems to be some sort of logic error in the layout code.
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This is still a problem with gnome-panel-2.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64. Titles are still being truncated by their containing boxes even when there is plenty of room to expand the box.
For the opposing point of view on this issue, see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525528
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