menu usefulness destroyed, how to make useful again

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 08:53 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
> > Jim Cornette wrote:
> >> I lost a lot of my added applets and launchers which I had setup. Is 
> >> this intentional breakage or will this be straightened out? right 
> >> clicking has add to panel and desktop grayed out.
> >> This is highly disappointing of a feature degradation.
> > 
> > Looks like a bug, they show (and work) for me.
> > gnome-panel-2.22.0-10
> > 
> 
> They used to be working on the 64-bit clean install and now are all 
> messed up. For the older 32-bit box they are working as before.
> 
> If I try to remove existing applets on the 64-bit clean install now, I 
> get a message that some features are locked down and all I have 
> available are the default applets. None of the customizations for added 
> applets before I noted the problem show any longer or is it possible to 
> add applets and launchers back to the panels or put them on the desktop.
> I was so disappointed that customization was not possible any longer 
> that I switched to KDE and was about motivated enough to eliminate the 
> whole desktop and convert over.
> Using KDE for awhile removed that temptation though.
> If it is a bug, I hope it is soon straightened out. If it is intentional 
> it pretty much makes GNOME impractical and disappointing.
> The unaffected 32-bit and continuously update computer had the version 
> that you reference above and is working fine. I'm not on the 64-bit 
> version currently so am not sure of the version there.

The fact that it only affects some of your machines should already be a
strong enough hint that this is not intentional. Unfortunately, your
description of the problem has so far not been clear enough to allow
tracking this down.