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I just upgraded from KDE 3.2.3 to KDE 3.3.2 with the movement from Slackware 10.0 to 10.1.

My taskbar/panels are on the left side of my screen. I also use the panel applet "Application Launcher" or I think otherwise known as 'launcher_panelapplet.'

The 'launcher' button on my panel used to read 'Run >' where a text box would popup (after a click) to the right. Of course, here is where you enter the name of the application to run.

However, now, regardless of where I position my panels, '< Run' or 'Run >' always points opposite to the KMenu and such.

I should note that I run multimonitor/Xinerama. Also, I use NVidia Twinview.

Although I am an okay programmer; I do not know where to start to obtain and compile the code for the panel modules.

Please let me know if my problem is truly a bug or if there is something I can do about it (via code).

Well, for those who care, I ended up just downloading the kdebase-4.2.3-i486-1.tgz package from a mirror listed on the Slackware site.

This is the version used with KDE 3.2.3... you know, when the 'Application Launcher' WORKED!

I was wrong about the name 'launcher_panelapplet;' rather I copied the two files from the .tgz :

/opt/kde/lib/kd3/run_panelapplet.la
/opt/kde/lib/kd3/run_panelapplet.so

to their corresponding place on my system. Because I'm a noob, after I did such, I gave it a good 'ldconfig.'

On a similar note, I noticed KMix (docked in the system tray) is also, like the 'Application Launcher' applet, biased towards the Windows and Macintosh horizontal panels and does not cooperate with my vertical panel. Clicking on it used to bring up the full audio slider board window. Now it pops up a window similar to that of the master volume control in Windows. This change I don't mind; however, the window is created underneath my panel.

I should also note, my panel hides.

I'm just noting a little haste in the development of some things KDE. Things that used to work but are now a little bit broken in some regards.