gnome-panel-2.8.1-3 redhat-menus-3.7.1-1.fc3 After a fresh installation, one of the first things someone might want to do is configure their panel, especially by adding useful applets to it. Unfortunately, there is no way for novice users to know that it is actually possible to add applets, even if they hunt through all the menus on the panel. The secret menu only appears if you right-click on a clear area in the panel itself. There should be some visible trail to lead people to all the actions possible from the "panel right-click" menu. A menu entry named something like "Configure panels..." might be enough; it could essentially activate the same menu, or perhaps a dialog-box version of it. (Though there would need to be some way to select which panel to configure.) -B.
Moved this upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172939
Originally reported for Fedora Core 3. Still a problem with Fedora 7. Upstream bugs updated with this status.