GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 480720
Panel lack an option to reset configuration options
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:14:11 UTC
The panel is configurable which is a good thing. But once the user has played with it, he may want to reset configuration options to get back defaut panel (since he may have made a mistake, i.e. suppress an applet, and can't remember what was exactly the defaut presentation). Therefore, i think the panel should propose an option to restore its defaut configuration. For a comparison, Audacity, which has a configurable toolbar, has a "reset toolbar" option. Other information: see also Launchpad #144318 ("Context menus showing configuration options of panels should be improved to avoid a user to suppress an applet by mistake") which duplicates Launchpad #10818 ("main menu should be locked by default and locking should mean undeleteable") which leads to Bugzilla #163174 ("locking should mean undeleteable)
The current solution to reset gnome-panel is to run the following commands in the terminal: $ gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel $ rm -fr ~/.gconf/apps/panel $ pkill gnome-panel
Does the solution from komputes also work for gnome 3?
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