Panel problems

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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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
> _______________________________________________
> Usability mailing list
> Usabilitygnome.org
> http
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>
>   

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