GNOME Panel
GNOME Panel is a highly configurable taskbar for GNOME. It formed a core part of the desktop in GNOME 1 and GNOME 2. It has been replaced in GNOME 3 by default with GNOME Shell, which only works with the Mutter window manager.
GNOME Flashback with Applications menu on Ubuntu 18.04 (displaying the panels at the top and bottom of the desktop) | |
| Developer(s) | GNOME project |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Type | |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | wiki |
There are many applets for GNOME Panel available in one package called gnome-applets while some applets included with GNOME Panel as built-in, like a traditional start menu.
GNOME Panel served as Fallback Mode until GNOME 3.8 when Mutter could not be executed, then it was replaced with a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions named GNOME Classic. Now it is part of GNOME Flashback, an official session for GNOME 3 which provides a user experience similar to GNOME 2.
In GNOME 3, customizing GNOME Panel is done by pressing the Alt key while right-clicking on the panel.