Locked Panel Items Easy to Accidentally Delete

[Ivor Howard Dunlop]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I most have clicked at the wrong time and lost those two points where I can switch screens so that I may have Firefox browser on one and Evolution on the other. I am new to Linux and Ubuntu

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 16 10:07:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/ivor
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux ivor-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support

[Anthony S (aaaantoine)]

Ivor Howard: Right-click the panel, and select the Add to Panel option. From there, you should find the workspace switcher tool.

Sebastien: I'd like to reopen this as a feature request. Locked panel items should not be removed without first giving the user a confirmation window. New users could lock themselves out of essential Ubuntu features if they (or perhaps a touchpad or compiz-fusion bug) remove panel items by accident.

[Anthony S (aaaantoine)]

Title revised to reflect the suggestion.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Anthony, thanks for your comment. When you have a suggestion like that better to open a new bug rather than reopening one with an unclear description so the bug submitter doesn't get extra mails if he doesn't want those. That has already been suggested also so the request is a duplicate, I'm closing the bug

[Anthony S (aaaantoine)]

In that case, marking as invalid again.