This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu1

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gnome-panel (1:2.27.91-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #418975)
    Panel
    - Drop dead code (Vincent)
    - Don't show icons icons for actions and categories (William Jon
      McCann, Matthias Clasen, Vincent)
    - Remove use of GnomeEntry in run dialog (Diego Escalante Urrelo,
      Vincent)
    - Port to GtkBuilder (Vincent)
    - Make the run button icon respect the desktop-wide setting (Vincent)
    - Add gnome-panel-add script to allow easy addition of applets
      (Vincent)
    - Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups (Javier Jardón)
    - Ignore overlapping monitors and just use the largest one (Federico
      Mena Quintero)
    - Put LVDS as first monitor (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Correctly set struts when two panels are right-oriented (Alexey
      Rusakov)
    - Use /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen (Vincent)
    - Use a different define for the size of the Applications menu icon
      (Vincent)
    - Clarify warning message at forced quit (Gabor Kelemen)
    - Make sure to preload /apps/panel/general early enough (Behdad
      Esfahbod)
    - Remove empty labels from translation (Andre Klapper)
    - Do not use non-existing monitors for toplevels (Vincent)
    - Do not save monitor changes that are caused by constraints (Vincent)
    - Use randr 1.3 features to detect the first monitor when possible
      (Vincent)
    - Use XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent() when possible (Vincent)
    - Improve check for LVDS-named output (Vincent)
    - Remove deprecated Encoding key from desktop file (Frédéric Péters)
    libpanel-applet
    - Port to GtkBuilder (Diego Escalante Urrelo, Vincent)
    All Applets
    - Port to GtkBuilder (Vincent)
    Clock Applet
    - Change "Clock Options" label to "Clock Format" (Vincent)
    - Launch the configured calendar/tasks application instead of evolution
      (Alex Converse, Vincent)
    - Port to PolicyKit 1 (Matthias Clasen)
    - Make default PolicyKit configuration stricter (Vincent)
    - Do not crash when setting time/timezone without PolicyKit (Matt Keenan)
    - Do not use obsolete and unneeded daylight variable (Alexis Ballier)
    - Fix confusion between GTime and time_t (Matthias Drochner)
    - Add missing mnemonics and window title (Gabor Kelemen)
    - Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups (Javier Jardón)
    - Do not place on the map locations with lat = 0 and lon = 0 (Vincent)
    - Make it possible to change the name of a location (Vincent)
    - Add/improve translator comments (Vincent)
    - Code cleanups (Vincent)
    Notification Area Applet
    - Allow more flexibility for NaTrayChild compositing (Owen Taylor)
    - Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups (Javier Jardón)
    Misc
    - Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (Sébastien Bacher)
    - Use silent-rules instead of shave for quiet build (Vincent)
    - Remove workaround for scrollkeeper (Vincent)
    - Remove libglade dependency (Vincent)
    - Require libgweather 2.27.90 (Vincent)
  * debian/control.in:
    - Drop build-depends on libglade2-dev
    - Bump build-depends on libgweather-dev
  * debian/patches/02_polkit1.patch:
  * debian/patches/06_clock_permissions.patch:
  * debian/patches/31_correct_aclocal_command.patch:
    - Applied upstream
  * debian/patches/01_layout.patch:
  * debian/patches/08_clock_applet_event.patch:
  * debian/patches/09_default_icons.patch:
  * debian/patches/16_compiz_workspace_switcher.patch:
  * debian/patches/17_about-ubuntu-translation.patch:
  * debian/patches/30_disable-initial-animation.patch:
  * debian/patches/70_relibtoolize.patch:
  * debian/patches/85_disable_shutdown_on_ltsp.patch:
  * debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.patch:
    - Updated

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden>   Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:21 +1000