19.10 - Loading / Saving custom panel layouts is utterly broken

  • In 3 years Mate Panel Layout change remain the same shi... and unreliable as in the following picture. (Configuration continue to be done in two files that look similar)
    (A FALSE AFFIRMATION - SEE DOWN WHERE WAS MY ISSUE)
  • Panel indicators in 3 years has been changed up and down, and it continue to be shi..., giving me the impression that 16.04 have the best indicators.

Even until now I manage to solve it, it looks like the panel issue is no more correctable if I remove par example one of mate menu almost all icons on left vertical bar disappear. (WRONG CONFIG FILE AS EXPLAINED DOWN)

Picture is taken from a new install,install was done using scripts that copy also those panel config files, but change was not reliable in Mate Tweak, and I was struggling wit it (until I manage to bring my app icons on left panel by switching around different layouts) (WRONG CONFIG FILE AS EXPLAINED DOWN).

I don't know what to say maybe this distribution is really in lack of developers, the developers that exist can only do small patches to existing bad coding as no one have time for a code rework. This is my feeling, and somehow I am sad about it ...