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[Bug 890026] Re: Custom GNOME panel launcher icons lost upon upgrade to Oneiric

 

+1

I'm using "gnome classic (no effects)" under Oneric too, and I find managing application launchers in top panel very unfriendly. 
1) There is no option to add a launcher icon using mouse-right, no one will guess that you have to create *.desktop file and drag it to the panel. 
2) There is no option to remove such launcher from panel.

Please add right menu to add application launcher and option to remove
it from panel.


Cheers!

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Title:
  Custom GNOME panel launcher icons lost upon upgrade to Oneiric

Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  One of the user accounts on my system uses GNOME classic and the
  upgrade from Natty to Oneiric caused that user's custom panel launcher
  icons to be lost. There were two custom launcher icons in the top
  panel before the upgrade which the user used as shortcuts for some
  common tasks. After upgrading (and reinstalling the classic gnome
  packages that the upgrade removed), there were no launcher icons at
  all in the panel anymore. I had to look up where the .desktop files
  used to be stored (.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/), move them to
  ~/Desktop, and then drag them from the desktop to the top panel.

  Ironically, Unity handled the situation better; it found the original
  .desktop files and presented them as pinned applications in the
  launcher. (But this user does not use Unity.) The new gnome-panel in
  Oneiric ought to retain support for the old launcher location.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-panel 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Nov 13 16:21:23 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-13 (0 days ago)

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