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Title: Remove From Panel is too easy Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: New Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: "Remove From Panel" is intrinsically too easy, but also extrinsically because "Add to Panel..." is much harder. On yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with one of my few friends who is not a CS major nor graduated. We turned on his PC, and the dialog was as follows: - Hey, I have Ubuntu! (Ubuntu 10.04) - Let's use it - I never use it - Why? - One day I removed this lettered menu from the bar (he was referring to Main Menu) and it took me hours to find the way to restore it. - Yup (I was crying but I'm tough so I did not let the tears go out) So you have to realize that, currently, users are at just 2 clicks of making their Ubuntu *useless* and rest without a clue of how restore it; just right clicking on the Main Menu and clicking on "Remove From Panel". Solutions: a) A confirmation dialog such as "Are you sure you want to remove Main Menu from this panel? [Yes] [[No]]" for all menu items b) Like a) but just for the default menu items, such as Main Menu, the clock, the desktops, the trash, ... c) A whole new way to manage items in panels... d) ... other ideas ... now I realize we are moving to Unity and Gnome is going 3.0 so fixing this perhaps is going to be useless soon. Anyway I felt this was a significant fail to be shared. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/700690/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
