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gnome-panel package

  1. Bug #337775
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 337775

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 337775] Re: no "usability sane" way to reboot jaunty without mouse

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 04:23 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> The solution, then, is to add the necessary hooks to gnome-panel, so
> that any panel-applet with a menu can be sanely (eg. volume control, nm-
> applet, ...) opened using the same keyboard sequence.
 <snip>
> It's something that should most be taken upstream, as just looking along
> my panel there's a lot of user-interface inconsistency between applets;
> some highlight-themselves, some require a click, some pop-open a text-
> entry box, some just show a tooltip; and most of these also have a
> second action available via the right-click action.

Yes, it is an upstream problem. But upstream is no longer working on
gnome-panel as it's deprecated in the GNOME 3 time frame. They're
mostly bug fixing gnome-panel today. I'm sure they'd accept patches,
but it would be very hard to get people excited about fixing it.