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Granny computingGranny computingPosted Nov 15, 2009 18:17 UTC (Sun) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: Granny computing by Cato Parent article: New Linux-Based PCs Encourage Seniors To Learn The Internet (redOrbit)
Yeah, my daughter is constantly "rearranging" my desktop for me and when she moves my top panel to one of the sides (I have a widescreen monitor) all my icons are shoved together and there's NO space to move the panel back again. Serious PITA: I used to have to delete icons until I found space.
What I did was enable the "hide" buttons on the panel. Even though I never use them to hide the panel, it's handy to have that space to drag it around. It will be nice to have this harder to do by accident (although my daughter is doing it on purpose :-))
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Granny computing Posted Nov 15, 2009 22:29 UTC (Sun) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
At least in GNOME, it's quite easy to lock the panels with gconf-editor - see my other post. KDE supports this in bleeding edge versions, as someone mentioned.
Granny computing Posted Nov 16, 2009 13:54 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]
This seems to make the panels completely immutable: that's not what I want. I just want them to not move, but I still want to be able to move things around in the panel and add things to the panel. Maybe I missed it but I didn't see anything that allowed just the movement to be disabled.
Granny computing Posted Nov 17, 2009 9:02 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
There is a panel-movement lockdown feature in Ubuntu 8.10 onwards that is a bit easier to use, which might help: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-the-locked-top-panel... - it points to this GNOME bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309721
I believe this 'lock panel movement' feature is what you want.
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