How to get default top-panel and bottom-panels back?

[Jonathan Underwood]

2008/5/11 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:20:56AM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>> > On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:03:41 -0600
>> > Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:56:38 +0100
>> > > Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Is there any way to restore the default gnome-panel settings for the
>> > > > top_panel and bottom_panel?
>> > >
>> > > Without having actually tried it, I think you will get what you want if you
>> > > delete everything from ~/.gnome2, then log in.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Might be safer to move the contents of ~/.gnome2 somewhere else so that
>> > you can restore it if things break badly.
>> >
>> Yes, definitely!  Thanks for the ideas.
>>
> Moving ~/.gnome2 to ~/.gnome2.old has had absolutely no effect at all
> on my gnome-panel(s).  :-(   I've restarted and the new .gnome2 has
> appeared and it's almost empty but I still have only one panel on my
> desktop and it's nothing like the default one.

You probably need to do the same thing with .gnome2_private .gnome
.gconf as well.