Hi.

Clock applet is currently centered on panel, but it looks
that actually around applet is some kind of invisible applet / item,
which just changes width acording how other elements
takes space.

You can move around it, but moving around other applets
and elements. But you cannot remove them, configure or add them.

One should be able to Alt-Right-Click on this space and show
Move and Remove from panel in context menu.

Thanks,
Witek

You can position a widget left, center, or right on the panel. It's
not possible to place an applet at a freely-chosen position. I guess
this is what you think to be a problem here[1].

[1] I guess we all know that gnome-panel 2.X was horribly broken
    WRT applet placement, at least for everyone using screens of
    multiple resolutions.

I see. So essentially there are 3 groups now, left, center and right,
and you can place applet in one of them, and change order of applets
in each group.

It may look like nice improvement, but I know some people which was actually
happy and exploited old behaviour to freelly lay out activators
and applets in ways which are currently impossible to do.
Like increasing inter-activator space.

I also had multiple groups of activators, now I can/must have only 3.
Separator applet allows only for small space beetwen groups,
and is almost useless (and additionally is not transparent,
and is not configurable to have variable width). This applet should
be improved to allow this. This way we can have better managment
of activators placement, but still have good behaviour
with respect to left/center/right alignment as well changing resolution
of screen, makeing it more fluid.

Maybe 'Move' in context menu should be changed to something different,
to prevent confusion?

Regards,
Witek

The problem with the free layout was that applets would move randomly
when you resized the screen. More can be found at:

http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/04/13/gnome-panel-is-dead%2C-long-live-gnome-panel%21

You already said that, and I understand that.

What I say is that now I cannot setup what is spacing beetwen applets
and activators in each group. I liked it less dense that it is now.
I can try using separator applet, but it doesn't introduce enough
spacing, and it draws ugly vertical line.

So, I think we can change this bug report to wishlist for separator
applet being more configurable (allowing setting width and color).

Regards,
Witek