F19 : what happened to gnome-panel?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 20:29:43 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 03:10:50PM +0200, Jouk Jansen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just tried to upgrade from F18 -> F19 (using fedup). After the upgrade I
> seem to have lost gnome-panel. It does not work anymore and no package of
> that name can be found.
> For me GNOME3 is only workable because I have access to the "old" panel
> which works at least as 10 times as efficient (in number of mouse
> movements/clicks) as the "new" animated way.
> Is there any chance that gnome-panel gets back?

Install the 'gnome-classic-session' package, and choose that as the
login session at the login screen.  This package includes a number of
extensions including a more familiar panel setup.
 
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