GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:52 -0400, Francis Bolduc wrote:
> 
> Then, I started reading about Unity on the web. I found out that in
> the next version of Ubuntu, the "Ubuntu Classic" session will be
> dropped, leaving me with a choice between Unity and GNOME 3. Not
> knowing what GNOME 3 was, I decided to try it that same day. To my
> dismay, I realized that GNOME 3 comes with GNOME Shell and it suffers
> from the same flaws as Unity (those listed above). Finally, I was
> shocked to learn that GNOME 3 will not include the GNOME Panel I like
> so much.
> 
fallback session for GNOME3 includes the gnome-panel, with a lot of
improvements:

http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/04/13/gnome-panel-is-dead,-long-live-gnome-panel!

cheers