Comment 7 for bug 345345

I can assure you that it still hangs. If you know a better way of figuring out why it's really freezing, be my guest and inform you. I always have to find a terminal to manually kill the gnome-panel so that it re-spawns and starts working again.

As I already stated before, only the "view" of the gnome-panel freezes; it's still responsive as normal; so if I remember where which applications are open I can click on them and they will come to the foreground; but I don't see any changes in the view of the gnome-panel anymore.