kicker trips over its own feet!

On my notebook (OpenSuSE install) the following happens, if I place the "kicker" panel upright on the right side: * "kicker" completely hogs 1 core (with ~4000 BogoMIPS) for around 150 seconds (yes 2:30!), just to layout and display the panel and react to interaction again * the resulting layout is very far from optimal (to be polite) * whenever I try to change any configuration option, either via 'kcontrol' or panel functions, a new "kicker" is spawned, incurring the 2:30 minutes paralysis penalty * when trying to change the panel-clock configuration (hoping) to improve layout, the system after some minutes was driven into a trashing frenzy so bad, I had to physically switch of the machine (STRG+ALT+DEL or STRG+ALT+BS or switching to a VT were not possible anymore, terminal windows not reactive, even "top" was essentially frozen!) To better understand your vision of Trinity -- what is your perception: On one hand the code base is from KDE3 in the era of 4:3 displays -- placing the panel sideways was at least unusual -- I never tried, and don't know if this ever worked or was expected to work ... On the other hand, in the era of 16:9 displays IMHO side panels are a desirable option ... So, is the reported behavior * a bug report? * a request for improvement? * a change request? * to be expected and tolerated for such an uncouth non-traditional configuration (;-) ? Best regards, ThoMaus