Documentation inconsistent with behaviour required to move a gnome-panel.

[Jonathan Heathcote]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Release: Ubuntu 9.04

Expectation: According to past experience and the documentation, dragging a panel by its white-space will allow you to position it on a different screen edge/display.

What Happened: Nothing; The panel does not move when dragged with any mouse button.

Workaround/Other Note: When the panel is un-expanded it can be dragged by its edges and then re-expanded when in position.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The past experience was an Ubuntu specific patch which allowed you to lock/unlock the panel. That patch has now been dropped, and the panel now behaves like any other window as intended upstream (to move it, press and hold the Alt key and then drag it with the mouse)

[Jonathan Heathcote (mossblaser)]

In which case the documentation needs to be updated as it still states that panels can be moved by dragging the white space.

[Thomas Ibbotson (thomas-ibbotson)]

I can confirm that the documentation is inconsistent with the required behaviour to move a panel. So I've added a bug task to ubuntu-docs.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

That documentation is at gnome-user-docs not in ubuntu-docs, reassigned.

[Motin (motin)]

After upgrade to Jaunty I cannot move the panel in any way except for making when they are not expanded automatically (which is not an acceptable workaround). No combinations of mouse clicks, ctrl and/or alt keys held down has been successful. Since this is prevalent on two different machines only after Jaunty-upgrade others ought to be affected by this as well. Is this the same issue or am I better off opening a new bug item about it?

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Dragging the panel with the Alt key works for me in Jaunty, so it sounds like you're experiencing a separate bug.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

The upstream fixed version has landed in Ubuntu.