Swatches panel won't resize to fit colors in gradient order in Photoshop CC?

I just upgraded to Creative Cloud and one problem I encountered was having my colors displayed in the gradient order when the swatches panel is attached to other panels and gathered on the right. You can tell this in the following screenshot of the panels here:
When separated from the rest, having the panel floating the colors are able to be displayed correctly. As seen here:
Is there no way I can have this configuration and still have it attached to the other panels? I've noticed that the panel that prohibits it to be resized to the proper size is the layers panel. How can I fix this?

When panels are docked together, they can only be resized down to the greatest minimum width in the bunch, in this case, the Layers panel. What I do is set the panel to use Large Thumbnails, and then increase the width so that the colors line up.
However, if the Swatches panel is docked with the Brush panel (which is v e r y w I d e), Large Thumbnails aren't large enough, and you can line the colors up.
Another thing you can do is stick some extra swatches (can be any color you like) on the right side of the panel, probably two for every row.

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my e mail is [email protected] i would be thankful
i even tried to download the illustrator on my friend's computer also i m having this problem ....

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