Oki, let's dive into technical details then… Gnome panel is setting some gconf key describing the layout of the panel in your local gconf settings at first launch, especially even if you don't change the default. For being able to switch between session, we change many things in your system, like the XDG path and the gconf ones. Gconf has some notion of mandatory and default settings, but if I put some default settings like "have only one panel", if you start the GNOME session first, you will end up with two, right? This settings will be recorded as "modified by the user" and then, switching back to the UNE session, you will end up with your "custom settings", which means, two panels, not the same applets and such.
The only way to workaround that (gnome panel upstream isn't keen to take a patch and to fix that. It has a lot of historical reason and will be vanished with GNOME3) is to set the gconf key as mandatory as long as we want to support more than one session. I published the workaround in the previous link in case you don't want to have a GNOME and UNE session. If you are not interested in having both, it's good, but we saw that there were a lot of demands to be able to switch between the two. So no kidding on freedom, we published everything in previous comments and answered to your question… Of course, if you want to work to fix that and to contribute there, this is a good opportunity. Thanks. -- Cannot add to panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448109 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
