-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Onno Benschop wrote: > On 09/06/08 22:12, Albert Roy wrote: >> I am a semi literate computer user who is working to promote FOSS >> alternatives to proprietary solutions. I use PcLinuxOs and Ubuntu as >> they are the most user friendly distributions and I am able to serve >> much of my computing needs with these FOSS solutions. I find my >> ability to convince those with less knowledge then me to follow >> hampered by seemingly unimportant stuff. >> >> One such difficulty is the absence of a tick box in Gnome preventing >> users from accidentally sliding panels around. >> >> I am passing this observation on to you so that you can pass it up the >> command chain. It is a marketing problem that can easily be solved. ( >> I am now in the process of installing Pessulus but a "lock panel >> position" tick box in the panel properties page, is what is really >> needed.)
It's a technical problem with a technical solution - I don't think bug reports should be something marketing people deal with (unless we're marketing to potential developers). > I confess that when I read your email, I remembered a 'lock' option in > the preferences, but I don't see it there, so perhaps my mind is playing > tricks on me. You can lock individual applets but not the whole panel. > * You could add a bug to launchpad, but I don't know how successful > you will be in getting it resolved. > * You could look for discussions with the gnome developers on the > subject and see what they decided. > * You could also log a bug with gnome. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/83286 Cheers, Dean -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIUEw2eedO8dcp9nYRAmlwAKCAREKFbYwO/9ab4TiSPk1uHGB2HACdEwZp tCLlW+2gcZ7W0AjdqsYJM7U= =dSGO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
