could you provide screenshot of this wrong behaviour and describe more clearly what do you expect from this applet?
On my dapper when I put panel on the left-hand side of the screen then clock is rotated and also main menu is - and I think that this is ok - I could see clock and main menu entries when I got panel with 28px on the left.... -- gnome clock applet rotated on vertical panel https://launchpad.net/bugs/42575 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs