If the widget is on the desktop, I can make it any width/height I want. In a panel, the size is not configurable at all. I have the widget in a vertical panel about 50px wide, and the widget is square. I'd like it to be about 2-3 as tall but I have no way to adjust it. It would be nice to have a configurable height/width for vertical/horizontal panels in the settings menu, or maybe have resize handles like spacers in the panel do.
all system monitor widgets have been recently rewritten from scratch but still kinda valid
*** Bug 420086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***