Custom Main Menu Applet Problem

[brokencrystal.com]

I would like to suggest that Ubuntu compiles Gnome with a way to allow us to remove that arrow overlapping the Main Menu applet via the Gnome Configuration Editor.

This arrow is a bug in Gnome that does not allow removal without modifying the Gnome source and removing the arrow before compiling Gnome.

Running AIGLX, Beryl/Compiz, and Screenlets makes my Ubuntu pretty nice. That arrow over the text of my custom main menu destroys it. It overides all that my composite desktop provides. The worst part is that I do not even have the option to remove it. I do not want to download, hack, and compile Gnome on every single PC my friends, family, and I are using just to remove that little tiny bug in Gnome.

Should this arrow be hard coded into the desktop manager? I would like to use Gnome Configuration Editor to remove it if I like.

[brokencrystal.com (admin-brokencrystal)]

This little arrow covers the text on my custom main menu applet picture. I call it the 'menu' graphic on my desktop because that is the text that is written on the graphic I made for the 'main menu' button, but since you can not read the word 'menu' because of the arrow overlay, it makes my desktop look like cheese.

Thank you

[brokencrystal.com (admin-brokencrystal)]

I also wanted to note that when you hover over the main menu picture, a 'tooltip' pops up that says "Main Menu" so there is no confusion whatsoever.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. We don't want to divert from upstream for a such change, and I'm not sure than a little detail like this one is worth a configuration option. Closing the request, we don't intend to write a patch for it

[PlaidRadish (jeff-plaidradish)]

BUMP!!!

Gosh, there are hundreds of people all over the Google world who've asked for this. It's not nearly as complicated as you make it sound. Surely this could be added to gconf-editor without giving anyone that many gray hairs?

[Sporkman (john-r-chase)]

This report covers it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/291463