You now what, I'm finally sick of it. This bug, and the associated saga
behind it, is absolutely ridiculous.

Me, personally, I lodged a ticket for this bug back sometime in 2006. I
was quite enthusiastic about doing my bit to help improve Ubuntu. It's
now been more than four years since I originally put this bug in. It was
labelled a duplicate of all these others, so I was put into the mailing
list for them as well.

For four years, I have received email notifications as people discussed
the bug. Sometimes it was once every few weeks. Sometimes it was a few a
day. Most of the time I just deleted them, but I never had the heart to
label them as spam (nor could be bothered to remove myself from the
mailing lists).

I have no doubt these emails/comments amount in the hundreds. Discussing
the complexities of solving why a bunch of icons swap their order when
you reboot. That's it. Four years later, I've gone through many desktop
computers (though have kept the same laptop).. and through all 11 major
releases of Ubuntu in this time, it has never been fixed, and still
annoys the shit out of me in the latest version of Mint I installed a
few days ago.

But the most incredulous rant inducing thing is not that the bug hasn't
been fixed (Windows has plenty of irritating issues that have plagued it
since 95 right to 7), but that people can discuss it for four years with
hundreds of comments and neither fix the problem or even get any closer
to fixing it. It is a damning indictment of the Ubuntu community -
something that can, and does do great things, but also wastes a huge
fuck-ton of time.

So in essence, you all waste a huge fuck-ton of time. Would love to see
this fixed once and for all in Meerkat. But it won't be.

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GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in 
some situations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44082
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