Preventing panel applet expansion / resizing

Hi,

Using latest parrsec 6, just installed.

The top panel applets can change their width dynamically depending on the circumstances. This in turn causes adjacent applets to move slightly, which overall i find very distracting.

For example if you enable seconds to show for time, the time widget and everything to the left will move when seconds go from 0 to 1 due to the width difference.

This also happens with the the system monitor applet if I shove it all the way to the right. Depending on what it shows it changes width causing other things to move.

I really wouldn’t care except it happens frequently and grabs attention of my eye every time.

Is there some way to prevent this resizing of applet width?

thanks for any help.