Bug#384954: About your bug: "kicker: systray icons inconsistently aligned on "normal" panel size" on the Debian BTS

[Ratiu Petru <petre@lsd.ro>]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I nearly forgot about the bug, so I ran a few tests today, using package
version 3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 of kicker.

The behaviour has improved since my bug report:

- on "normal" i have on row of icons in the systray and on "large" two,
  regardless of the order in which the settings are applied.
- however, when using custom panel size, increasing and decreasing by one in
  the interval 45-55, i noticed a sort of hysteresis phenomenon: when i
  increase the panel size, the systray switches to two-column layout at 51px
  width, but when i decrease , i can go as far as 48px without switching to
  single column. (so the 48-50 interval has no predetermined layout)
- unlike the previous time, even in the "undecided" interval, the systray is
  stable, without jumping from one layout to the other upon adding or
  removing an icon (i tested with akregator's systray icon)

I guess i can say all the annoying side effects of the bug are gone, but
there still remains the unexplained behaviour of the systray between 47 and
51 pixels of width which might be a feature (I don't understand its purpose)
or might be a manifestation of a bug.

This behaviour repeats identically when the panel is horizontal.