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Bug 172939 - Usability problem adding applets and configuring panels (full panel)
Usability problem adding applets and configuring panels (full panel)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 488191 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-07 12:19 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Mark McLoughlin 2005-04-07 12:19:30 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 3

From Fedora:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144571

  After a fresh installation, one of the first things someone might want
  to do is configure their panel, especially by adding useful applets to
  it.  Unfortunately, there is no way for novice users to know that it
  is actually possible to add applets, even if they hunt through all the
  menus on the panel.  The secret menu only appears if you right-click
  on a clear area in the panel itself.

  There should be some visible trail to lead people to all the actions
  possible from the "panel right-click" menu. 

  A menu entry named something like "Configure panels..." might be
  enough; it could essentially activate the same menu, or perhaps a
  dialog-box version of it. (Though there would need to be some way to
  select which panel to configure.)

(I thought there was already a bug on this but I can't see it)
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2005-04-07 17:21:14 UTC 
This is related to some comments in bug #11763.
Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2007-08-26 19:25:44 UTC 
This is still a problem as of Fedora 7.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2008-08-06 22:32:59 UTC 
*** Bug 488191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:25:01 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

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