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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

That is most definitely a bug report, probably with a relatively high priority. It should Just Work.

Tim