strange plasma and behavior in KDE 4.2

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/3/10 Jorge Pérez <kokiperex at gmail.com>:
> I just upgraded my Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. The panel is having a strange
> behavior.
>
> The clock and "system tray" areas is huge with a lot of unused space (as you
> can see in the screenshot). I don't have the "open windows" area and some
> icons are missing (I tried to use the Oxygen icon theme but a lot of icons
> was broken and now I'm using another theme)
>
> I re-instaled KDE (apt-get update kde) but that didn't help.
>
> P.S: I did a fresh instalation on my laptop and everything was ok, but in my
> desktop I only have the upgrade option, so I have to fix that problems.
>
> any idea/sugestion?
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Jorge

The widgets is kind of stupid, they should have a configure option how
they should fill the area around them but they don't. One way to make
widgets align to the right is to add the "Activity manager" (i don't
know it's English name) and place it to the left of the widgets you
want to align to the right. There are also a widget Panel Spacer
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Panel+Spacer?content=89304
that you can use but I never got to work. Panel spacer is also in
Intrepid with KDE 4.2.

/ Jonas