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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
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