About the same for me. First, no problem. I have used Ubuntu on my private computer since 2006, on my company computers since 2008, and when helping friends to install Linux. I have always re-arranged items so that all of them are on the lower panel, and then erased the upper panel. This has never caused any problem, until now (using Karmic).
For a friend of greek origin, I added the keyboard indicator to the panel with Swedish (we live in Sweden) and Greek keyboard support, while already having the Notification area, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice Writer and Calc, Gedit, Filezilla, Gimp, System monitor, Forced application shutdown, Wastebasket and clock on the same panel. Everything seemed to work OK. But when I added the keyboard indicator, the problem started. Sometimes everything worked. After other reboots, one or two items disappeared, sometimes there was only a blank panel (no icons at all), and sometimes the notification area had two volume controls instead of volume control plus network manager... It seemes that too many objects on one panel is what initiated the problem for me, so I tested this: I kept the Indicator-Applet-Session (log out/shut down/lock screen et.c.), Program-Places-System, Keyboard indicator and clock on this panel, and moved everything else to a new panel, which I placed at the top of the screen. Then I unchecked the fold-out option and checked the hide automatically option. So, only the "always necessary" items are on the ever-visible panel at the bottom, the other items on the invisible panel on top. After this, I have rebooted about 15-20 times, and the problem never seemes to appear anymore. But THIS IS NO SOLUTION. A hole in the road doesn´t disappear just because you can drive around it. I would really like to have all-in-one-panel again, as before. It is especially important when you try to convince someone to leave Windows for Ubuntu, that they feel at home. And on modern wide-screen monitors most of us can fit what we need on only one panel and still have free space left. So, having all on one panel simply must work. This bug is serious. -- Certain notification area icons are invisible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
