Created attachment 5028 datetime--0.6.2-0ubuntu1--Ubuntu--13.04.png Hi, my respect to all contributors to great free software! I used to have customized look of my DateTime plugin on the vertical panel in my previous Ubuntu version. Liked it very much. :( I'll attach the screenshot of it in my next comment. When I upgraded Ubuntu to most recent 13.04 (plugin 0.6.2), the datetime box started to look like on the attached screenshot. 1) It changed the behavior which will confuse users. 2) There is no apparent way to make the text horizontal again.
Created attachment 5029 datetime--0.6.1-3--Ubuntu--11.10.png Please let me have this look again! :) (Maybe even better: Without the useless vertical space between the time and date.)
This is already fixed. Change to Deskbar mode of the panel. (Panel Properties -> Display/General/Mode -> choose Deskbar) hth
Mass-reassign all bugs from florian@ to goodies-dev@, thanks for the maintenance work! (and sorry for the bugmail spam..)
As Schlaffi said, the new deskbar mode solves the problem, so no fix is needed for datetime-plugin.