How to customize the gnome classic panel

Posted by Luis Alvarado on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Luis Alvarado
Published on 2011-10-20T02:30:34Z Indexed on 2011/11/21 2:07 UTC
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First the picture:

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As you can see in the image, the color used for the icons and words Applications and Places (In spanish in this case) they have a different background dark gray color than the rest of the panel. Also the icons look rather bigger in that panel. Now my questions are:

  1. Can the background colors be customized so they look the same all the way in the panel.

  2. Can the icons be somehow minimized a little so they do not look strange (bigger actually)

  3. How to edit the way to add icons to the panel. I have to actually have to press the ALT key then right click on it to add something. That extra key is not friendly at all.

In this particular case am trying to help an older man start in Ubuntu. Unity is too much for him but Gnome is friendlier for him (Learning curve is not the best for older people.. specially 68+ year old people).

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