Panel problems on F10

[Neal Becker]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 14:08:05 Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:37:58 GN wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic
> > > > problem that I cannot seem to fix.
> > > >
> > > > I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add anything to
> > > > nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one desktop by
> > > > clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a little box with a
> > > > left pointing arrow that says menu with the mouse over it but
> > > > clicking L or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is
> > > > the text 'Top Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide
> > > > still leaves quite a blank white strip at the top of the screen.
> > > >
> > > > Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel working or
> > > > remove it.
> > > >
> > > > Ta.
> > >
> > > Can you confirm that the widgets on your desktop are not locked.
> > >
> > > Eli
> >
> > I made this mistake before.  It was not obvious to me what 'locked'
> > meant. This is a UI problem, IMO.
>
> If you can think of a better word, perhaps you can submit a feature request
> to kde.
>
> Frankly, I can't think of a way to make it any more clear and concise
> enough to fit in a menu item. If you can, that would be great.
>
> Eli

User can be informed via the usual UI means, either a box that pops up on 
mouseover, or when the option is chosen a dialog that remind her that the 
panel widgets can now  not be modified until they are unlocked by ...