Difficult to install non-default panel applets

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I wanted a timer applet.

First I tried right clicking on the panel and adding an applet to see if it was there already. It wasn't. It would be really nice if there was some sort of "get additional panel applets" button here. At the very least, I should've been pointed to Applications->Add/Remove.

Typing "timer" into that, however, didn't give me what I wanted either - just a bunch of unrelated timers.

It turns out that we do have a package that's exactly what I want, timer-applet, however I had to manually install it after doing a synaptic search to find it.

So, this is a wishlist - I want an easy way for us to list various installable panel applets and provide them specially to the user directly in the Add to Panel dialog.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 26 16:04:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.22-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic x86_64

[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)