Recent changes to gnome-panel

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 11:23 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> > there's concern that this kind of highly-visible behaviour change
> > shouldn't be introduced this late in the cycle. When I talked to
> > Matthias on IRC he seemed to think the changes to remove the 'show
> > desktop' button and reduce the default number of workspaces from 4 to 2
> > should affect only new users, but the forum discussion seems to indicate
> > they actually affect existing users too. Is this considered a bug?
> 
> I can confirm that the changes do not affect the existing user on my
> laptop.

'It depends'. The change is to the default value of some GConf settings.
So if you have tweaked the value before, you won't be affected by
changes to the default. If you haven't, you will be.