Adding an applet to the Gnome panel

[Tor Klingberg]

To add an applet to the Gnome panel, I am supposed to right-click on an empty part of hte panel and choose "Add to Panel...". On my desktop (Jaunty Netbook Remix) there is no empty part of the panel. It is all taken up by the icons. The only way to add an applet is:
1. Right click on the notification area to the left of the applets and uncheck "Lock to Panel".
2. Right click on the notification area again and click "Move".
3. Move the mouse a bit to the left and left-click.
4. Now I can right-click on the empty part of the panel and choose "Add to Panel...".
5. Right-click on the notification area again, choose Move and drag it back.
6. Right-click on the notification area for he fourth time and check "Lock to Panel".

This took a long time to figure out and is not very convenient. Suggested solutions:
* The "Add to Panel..." option should appear when right-clicking on the clock or perhaps on all the icons.
* Panel option should appear under Preferences in the main menu.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is probably a duplicate too

[Tor Klingberg (tor-klingberg)]

I sent it upstream to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594370

[Andy Rabagliati (andyr)]

You can also right-click on the bottom pixel of the panel - that works.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525523.