Panel problems

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Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Trevor Barton um 17:04:
> I don't seem to be able to create any panel other than a normal ordinary panel; 
> when I right click on the existing panel the "New Panel" menu item does not open 
> a submenu as it did on RH9 and I see no other way of creating corner, floating, 
> etc panels, or even menu panels.  Is it just me, or am I missing something 
> obvious, or is it just broken?  I've tried gnome-panel from the standard install 
> and also from ftp://czarc.net/pub/ but neither work.

The panels has changed in gnome 2.4. 

See here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rnwhatsnew.html