how to increase the number of virtual desktops?

[David Timms]

On 27/12/09 22:42, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:20:06 -0500 (EST), Robert wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
>>> Right click over the workspaces in the lower right corner and pick
>>> "Preferences".
>>
>>    wow ... that just blew away all of my desktops and quit
>> unexpectedly.
>
> Without triggering ABRT?
ABRT triggered for me.

- the workspace switcher disappeared from my preferred location (top 
near-left)
- open windows no longer have icon/name tabs (?window list)
- the preferences dialog did not get displayed before ABRT showed
- submitted and autoduped as:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539343

ps there is a gnome-panel in updates-testing that I'm about to try with.