> Too bad nobody has perfected the 'move panel from side to top/bottom' or 'move panel from top/bottom to side' technology in Linux yet, unlike Microsoft or OS X.
Alt+dragging moves the panel. Just like moving windows (sans titlebar). IIRC it used to be that you could just drag (without pressing Alt), but presumably someone thought that it was too easy to move the panel accidentally.
Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
Posted Oct 26, 2010 15:49 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
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The panel can be moved, but it does not work well at all when. At least the traditional Gnome-panel's support for working on the side is very very poor.