I had emulated Windows’ look and feel shortly after I began using Ubuntu, but I have now became convinced of the Gnome way being the right way. I realized my brain was already confused with the location of the menus due to just the short dip into the Gnome default. That is to say, I found myself looking for the desktop menus from the top of the screen although I had only just touched that solution briefly in the beginning – what more proof is needed for the naturalness of the Gnome way? So, in an attempt to follow the Gnome philosophy to the strictest, I tried to re-organize my desktop back to the way it was right at the beginning.<\/p>\n
It took me some time to find out how to add the second panel back, as most of the Ubuntuforums threads seemingly related were not, so here’s how to do it: point to the other<\/em> panel you have, right-click on it and select New Panel. I do wonder if the Gnome people think this is the most accessible way of doing this; at least in my mind, the panels are I tried to avoid the somewhat nasty way of removing all Gnome configuration files because I did have some settings I wanted to preserve. Unfortunately, at some point I ran into Bug #153382<\/a> (or a similar one), where Nautilus makes the desktop disappear, starts hogging up the CPU and spews error messages into a logfile in the home directory. It was only due to finding the logfile that I found out what was going on in the first place, and I have to say this is one of those bugs that, although quite easy to solve with some experience (the added onto the desktop<\/q> so I would have expected the choice to add one to be available by right-clicking on the desktop<\/em>. But apparently, the birth of a panel is more like the birth of an amoeba (where one becomes two) rather than the birth of life itself (where naught becomes one).<\/p>\n
nautilus<\/code> process needs to be killed), is probably a horrible experience for a beginner running into it.<\/p>\n