I have no idea how hard this fix is to implement, but as a long time Ubuntu fan, I can say that this has been annoying me a long time, and usually does happen during initial setup of a new machine during all the monitor resizes in the monitor configuration step. I also currently have Ubuntu setup inside a VMWare virtual machine which basically resizes the monitor to full screen mode every time I log in and the VMWare Tools application starts. This leaves the applets that should be on the right sitting in the middle of my panels with every login. Unlocking and moving them all every login is a serious pain.
I have no idea how hard this fix is to implement, but as a long time Ubuntu fan, I can say that this has been annoying me a long time, and usually does happen during initial setup of a new machine during all the monitor resizes in the monitor configuration step. I also currently have Ubuntu setup inside a VMWare virtual machine which basically resizes the monitor to full screen mode every time I log in and the VMWare Tools application starts. This leaves the applets that should be on the right sitting in the middle of my panels with every login. Unlocking and moving them all every login is a serious pain.