GNOME 1.4 User's Guide
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# Current bugs and limitations

Most of the things here are not really bugs; rather, they describe situations when the Panel's behavior is not what you would expect.

You cannot place an ordinary file or directory on the Panel. If you try to drag and drop a file from the File Manager window to the Panel, it won't work. The only type of file that can be placed on the Panel are `.desktop` files, which describe launchers (and `.kdelnk` files, which describe launchers in the format used by K Desktop Environment); any directory dropped on the Panel will be interpreted as a menu — that is, all the files other than `.desktop` files will be ignored.

Editing menus other than the Main Menu is rather confusing. `Menu Editor` at the moment cannot be used for this, and the Properties item of the right-click menu is not too helpful either - for example, it doesn't allow one to change the menu's icon (see the section called Configuring a Menu for instructions for doing this). This will be improved in the next release.

The Global Menu (which you get by pressing the Alt-F1 key on the keyboard or by right-clicking on the Panel), and the Main Menu (which you get by clicking on the foot icon) are configured separately. The reason is that you can have several Main Menu buttons on different Panels.

The Screen Lock button does not lock the screen if `No Screensaver` is set in the `GNOME Control Center`.

The only way of changing a Panel's type (Edge, Aligned, etc.) is by choosing Panel->Properties->Type from the Main Menu or Global Menu: you can not change Panel type in the Panel Properties dialog. Conversely, Panel->Properties->Background type allows you to change the background type (Pixmap/Color/Standard), but not to choose the actual color or image to use.

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