power button placement

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 10:17:37 NoOp wrote:
> On 06/26/2007 04:46 PM, James Takac wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:50:06 Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> >> On 6/25/07, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Guys
> >> >
> >> > I tried to exchange the places of the clock and the power button and
> >> > it didn't work as expected. The clock was on the far right with the
> >> > power button to its left. I wanted to reverse that order and now my
> >> > power button is further left (left of the network icon) and I can't so
> >> > much as return it to the original pos. Anyone know how to remedy this?
> >>
> >> You may need to right click on the various applets and ensure that
> >> they're all unlocked.  If you encounter a locked applet while dragging
> >> another one, you won't be able to move your applet from one side of
> >> the locked one to the other.  You can simply unlock them all, move
> >> them around to suit your tastes, and relock them.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> memes don't exist -- tell your friends
> >
> > Hi Chris
> >
> > Tried that and no joy as there is an icon that wont unlock, namely the
> > network icon
>
> Immediately to the left of the twin monitors is a vertical bar w/squigly
> (sp?) lines; that is the notification area. For some reason Ubuntu
> decided to tie the network icon to this one and I've not yet figured out
> how to break them apart. Anyway, click on the notification icon and
> 'unlock' it & move it left. That will move the network icon out of the
> way for you.
>
> BTW: I just set up a system for a Windoze user making it appear the same
> as a M$ desktop; not sure if you realize this or not but you can put the
> Applications icon (without Places & System text) the lower left corner
> of the bottom toolbar/panel. It only shows up as the Ubuntu logo, but
> when clicked works exactly the same as the M$ Start toolbar; includes
> Places, System, and the Shutdown/Restart/etc functions. Cleans up
> desktop to the point where I was able to totally remove the top
> toolbar/panel for the customer.
>   Simply: right click the panel (top or bottom), Add to Panel, scroll
> down to utilities, then add 'Main Menu'. Cleans up the toolbar/panel
> considerably. You can test first by just adding it to the top or bottom
> panel to see what it does & remove if you don't like it.

Had actually unlocked that yesterday but still couldn't place the other icons. 
Found you can't do a simple drag n drop as usual. And to use the move option 
in the context menu for each icon I had to move. Dunno if that counts as a 
bug, tho it would be to do with gnome and not ubuntu imho