One of the changes Ubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic Koala”) made from 9.04 was the placement of “asynchronous” (that is, all notifications except the volume and brightness ones.) farther down the right side of the screen. The reasoning behind this can be read here:http://www.mail-archive.com/ayatana@lists.launchpad.net/msg00742.html. The problem a lot of users (myself included) have with this is that it leaves a big space between the top of the screen and notifications and they find this aesthetically unpleasing.

Yuck!!

Fortunately, Julien Lavergne has packaged a version with the old behaviour: link.

Back to the future!

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