GNOME panel is, well, the panel in GNOME. You know, the bar you see at the top and at the bottom of your desktop, with menus and lots of applets on it. That's it. That's the panel.

Since gnome-panel 2.9.2, the gnome-panel use the /apps/panel gconf directory to store its settings. The settings that were previously stored in /apps/panel/profiles will be automatically migrated. Since gnome-panel 2.9.2 also, the panel depends on gnome-menus and we should finally enjoy the freekdestop.org Desktop Menu Specification. If you don't see any items in the menus, then you probably forgot to set $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to $(sysconfdir)/xdg

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

This release is available at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-panel/2.9/gnome-panel-2.9.92.tar.bz2

If you want to contribute to gnome-panel, go, no, run to http://live.gnome.org/GnomePanel



Changes in gnome-panel 2.9.92
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Panel

* List bookmarks in the right order in the Places menu (Vincent)
* Simplify the code for About dialogs (Luca Ferretti)
* Fix crash when there's an error loading an icon in the "Add to
panel" dialog (Vincent)
* Fix path for launchers in default setup (SÃbastien Bacher)
* Fix error dialogs complaining about icon theme when starting and
there are drawers (Vincent)
* New layout for the main menu, similar to the menu bar layout
(Vincent)
* Fix applets with wrong backgrounds when the specified image
background does not exist (Vincent)
* Fix main menu lockup when the lockdown mode is changed
(Vijaykumar Patwari)
* Plug memory leaks (Vincent)
* Support possible new format for the GTK+ bookmarks file (Vincent)
* Fix crash when the desktop background changes (Vincent)

Applets

* Simplify the code for About dialogs (Luca Ferretti)
* Fix leak when panel background changes (Vincent)

Clock Applet

* Fix update of the clock to happen every minute and not every second
when we don't show seconds (Vincent)

Window List Applet

* Fix icon loader for startup notification buttons (Vincent)

Workspace Switcher Applet

* Update for libwnck API change (Elijah Newren)

Translators

* Vital Khilko (be)
* Vladimir Petkov (bg)
* Jordi Mallach (ca)
* Miloslav Trmac (cs)
* Martin Willemoes Hansen (da)
* Hendrik Richter (de)
* Nikos Charonitakis (el)
* David Lodge (en_GB)
* Ivar Smolin (et)
* Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
* Ankit Patel (gu)
* Gabor Kelemen (hu)
* Luca Ferretti (it)
* Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
* Changwoo Ryu (ko)
* Kjartan Maraas (nb)
* Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
* Kjartan Maraas (no)
* Raphael Higino (pt_BR)
* Duarte Loreto (pt)
* Marcel Telka (sk)
* Elian Myftiu (sq)
* Christian Rose (sv)
* Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
* Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
* Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)