Re: [Usability] Panel problems

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

Wow, you should file this on Bugzilla with whatever version you're 
using, whatever distro you're using, etc. I actually find that Gnome's 
panels are what draw me to using Gnome rather than KDE, esp. with 
Ubuntu's alternative menu system. Also, this bug just doesn't happen to me.

However, when trying it out to see if it would, I noticed that some 
panel applets are horribly designed for vertical use via adding random 
things to drawers (weather applet, dictionary lookup, in particular the 
window list, and so on). While some things work quite well (the clock 
applet, custom app launchers).

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    Most likely there is a better place to file this problem to get
> some support. Hopefully someone can point me there?
>
>    Today I was using Gnome and selected the wrong icon in the panel. I
> clicked on the default System Management drawer and then the shutdown
> launcher. When I realized I had done this I didn't want to shut down
> do I ended up trying to slide off the shutdown launcher onto the
> desktop. BIG MISTAKE.
>
> 1) I got the shutdown icon on the desktop - no big deal, but...
>
> 2) EVERYTHING else on the panel disappeared. All of my custom drawers
> are gone, the system menu is gone, the Gnome main menu is gone and all
> application launchers are gone.
>
>    What a mess.
>
>    OK, so my question is at this point is how do I at least get the
> panel back to it's default state, and is it possible to get everything
> back to where it was before this human error did so much damage? Most
> of the apps I start had custom parameters that I no longer remember so
> setting them up again will be time consuming and error prone.
>
>    As a usability question, why is the panel so weak when the rest of
> Gnome is so strong. We love the environment here at home but all three
> of us run into problems with the panel each month.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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