This is the "ideas" web page for the "Gnome Panel Enhancements" project. This project has been accepted as part of Google's [http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Summer of Code] program ; the student is ManuCornet.

This project was at first a bounty, described [http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePanelEnhancements here].

Gnome menu and sudo

Purpose

The idea here would be to know, for each menu item, whether the user needs to be sudoer (eg Synaptic) or not. If it does and the user is not sudoer, then this item does not need to be shown in the menu.

The "Add to panel" dialog

Panel sizing based on screen resolution and size