Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.20.0+5 Severity: normal
The clock applet in MATE changes its width depending on the width of the characters displayed. This is most noticable when seconds are displayed. If seconds are displayed and the clock is far from any other applet, the AM/PM indicator (if in 12-hour format) will shift left and right every second. If the clock is pushed into a corner of the top or bottom panel, the whole applet will then wiggle back and forth, regardless of the time format. If other applets are pressed up against the clock, then the whole row of applets will move as well. Ensuring a gap between the clock, the edge of the panel, and other applets won't reliably cut the problem down to just the dancing AM/PM. When other things change, the applet will often get wider and then cause the entire row of applets to dance around again. This can be a problem when lots of things are crammed into a panel. The clock applet needs to determine the maximum possible width of its contents according to its current settings and 1) make its width fixed and 2) put some flexible space within the applet's contents. This bug causes actual headaches. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment depends on: ii mate-desktop-environment-core 1.20.0+5 Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment recommends: ii atril 1.20.3-1 ii desktop-base 10.0.0 ii engrampa 1.20.2-1 ii eom 1.20.2-1+b1 ii ffmpegthumbnailer 2.1.1-0.2+b1 ii mate-applet-brisk-menu 0.5.0-9 ii mate-applets 1.20.3-1 ii mate-backgrounds 1.20.0-2 ii mate-calc 1.20.3-1 ii mate-icon-theme-faenza 1.20.0+dfsg1-2 ii mate-media 1.20.2-1 ii mate-notification-daemon 1.20.2-1 ii mate-power-manager 1.20.3-1 ii mate-screensaver 1.20.3-3 ii mate-system-monitor 1.20.2-1 ii mate-user-guide 1.20.2-1 ii mate-utils 1.20.1-1 ii pluma 1.20.4-1 Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment suggests: ii mailutils [mail-reader] 1:3.5-2 pn mate-desktop-environment-extras <none> ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.18-2 ii thunderbird [mail-reader] 1:60.5.1-1 pn x-www-browser | firefox <none> -- no debconf information
