fallback from gnome-shell to the old desktop not satisfying since some days

[Joachim Backes]

After having applied all updates, I see the following problem:

Switching to the old desktop fallback leads to some problems:

1. The menus are missing for logging out and restarting
2. No menu controlled way back to gnome-shell: I have to start manually
    gnome-control-center

Somebody sees this too?

Kind regards

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:27 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> After having applied all updates, I see the following problem:
>
> Switching to the old desktop fallback leads to some problems:
> The menus are missing for logging out and restarting
> No menu controlled way back to gnome-shell: I have to start manually
>  gnome-control-center
>
> Somebody sees this too?

I recall an IRC discussion last night (probably #fedora-desktop in GNOME
IRC) about gnome-panel not being ported to dconf, so it has wacky
settings...

[Michael Knepher]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Joachim Backes
 wrote:
> After having applied all updates, I see the following problem:
>
> Switching to the old desktop fallback leads to some problems:
> The menus are missing for logging out and restarting

Are you looking for the old "System" menu that was next to
Applications and Places? That's gone, and you should have "Log Out..."
and "Shut Down..." entries in the user menu on the right of the panel.
> No menu controlled way back to gnome-shell: I have to start manually
>
> gnome-control-center

"System Settings" should also be in the user menu.

Running latest gnome-panel from updates-testing.
> Somebody sees this too?
>
> Kind regards
>
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[Joachim Backes]

On 04/05/2011 07:31 PM, Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Joachim Backes
>   wrote:
> > After having applied all updates, I see the following problem:
> >
> > Switching to the old desktop fallback leads to some problems:
> > The menus are missing for logging out and restarting
>
> Are you looking for the old "System" menu that was next to
> Applications and Places? That's gone, and you should have "Log Out..."
> and "Shut Down..." entries in the user menu on the right of the panel.

Hi Michael, I'm sorry, but there is no user menu at the right side of 
the panel. Only Applications and Places menu at the panel's left side.
> > No menu controlled way back to gnome-shell: I have to start manually
> > gnome-control-center
>
> "System Settings" should also be in the user menu.

You're right.
> Running latest gnome-panel from updates-testing.

Me too.

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/06/2011 02:05 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi Michael, I'm sorry, but there is no user menu at the right side of
> the panel. Only Applications and Places menu at the panel's left side.

FWIW, I think I saw this issue a few days ago.  I wasn't paying too much
attention to it since my set up has F15-A in a VM and I was having VM
issues....

But, I ended up creating a new user and the menus were in the "correct"
places.  I've not yet had the time to try and figure out the differences
between the old and new user.

Ed

[Jason D. Clinton]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 01:05, Joachim Backes
 wrote:
> Hi Michael, I'm sorry, but there is no user menu at the right side of the
> panel. Only Applications and Places menu at the panel's left side.

This will fix it:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel