One of the user accounts on my system uses GNOME classic and the upgrade from Natty to Oneiric caused that user's custom panel launcher icons to be lost. There were two custom launcher icons in the top panel before the upgrade which the user used as shortcuts for some common tasks. After upgrading (and reinstalling the classic gnome packages that the upgrade removed), there were no launcher icons at all in the panel anymore. I had to look up where the .desktop files used to be stored (.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/), move them to ~/Desktop, and then drag them from the desktop to the top panel.
Ironically, Unity handled the situation better; it found the original .desktop files and presented them as pinned applications in the launcher. (But this user does not use Unity.) The new gnome-panel in Oneiric ought to retain support for the old launcher location.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 13 16:21:23 2011
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-13 (0 days ago)
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I'm using "gnome classic (no effects)" under Oneric too, and I find managing application launchers in top panel very unfriendly.
1) There is no option to add a launcher icon using mouse-right, no one will guess that you have to create *.desktop file and drag it to the panel.
2) There is no option to remove such launcher from panel.
Please add right menu to add application launcher and option to remove it from panel.
Cheers!