Created attachment 3466 My vertical panel date view Currently I'm using XFce-4.8 on Gentoo Linux (x86). I'm using vertical information panel (the date-tome section is on the attached image). Analog clock are the standard clock plugin. The rest ones (digital clock, weekday abbr. (text), monthday (numeric) and month abbr. (text)) are displayed by datetime plugin. For my task I had to start 4 copies of datetime plugin. I would like to be able to get the similiar result starting the only copy of datetime plugin.
I agree, I am also used to vertical panel and the feature to multi-line output was the key feature for me. This bug has no progress so far, I think we should consider forking the plugin.
So it appears there were some changes for 4.10. Unfortunately, it made the behavior worse for me. I'm using a vertical panel and in 'digital' layout mode, the text is always upright, even if the panel was made pretty wide so that the text could be displayed in horizontal without problems. The 'LCD' layout does so. (And this is expected behaviour.) Maybe use cases for people are so different that there is no automatic setting that is right for everyone?
(In reply to comment #2) > So it appears there were some changes for 4.10. Unfortunately, it made the > behavior worse for me. > I'm using a vertical panel and in 'digital' layout mode, the text is always > upright, even if the panel was made pretty wide so that the text could be > displayed in horizontal without problems. The 'LCD' layout does so. (And > this is expected behaviour.) > Maybe use cases for people are so different that there is no automatic > setting that is right for everyone? The time of update to 4.10 also comes for me. I've also seen the issue you describe. But there is rather easy workaround: just switch to orage's based clock plugin. It works fine. I think, in XFce4 there is too many applications doing the same (displaying time). To my ming at least some of them could be simply removed.
(In reply to comment #2) > So it appears there were some changes for 4.10. Unfortunately, it made the > behavior worse for me. > I'm using a vertical panel and in 'digital' layout mode, the text is always > upright, even if the panel was made pretty wide so that the text could be > displayed in horizontal without problems. The 'LCD' layout does so. (And > this is expected behaviour.) > Maybe use cases for people are so different that there is no automatic > setting that is right for everyone? In XFce-4.10 appeared new (3-rd) type of panel (I don't know it's basic (not localized) name). Switching to it solves at least your issue (with digital clock). I'll make some additional checks. But directly _this_ bug seems to be solved.
works as intended for the original reporter.