Re: `New' sub-menu in desktop's rightclick-menu

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Calum Benson wrote:
> > A related thing that I think would be useful (and can also be seen in the
> > screenshot) is to add the ability to create panels from that menu.
>
> I like that idea.  If the Panel Preferences dialog actually let you
> change the style of a panel (which it really should, but doesn't), then
> all you would need would be a single menu item that popped up that
> dialog.

It's also useful if users lose their panels for some reason (which I have
witnessed happen on many occasion, not just because of bugs) -- having a
way of getting the panel back directly from the right-click menu seems
better than having to right-click, launch a new terminal and type
"gnome-panel".


Christian