[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“The GNOME panels are not normally so bad at first, but I have
had instances where my CPU throttling applet would not load right
and instead displays a gray box where the applet should otherwise
appear. On other occasions, one of the GNOME panels might simply
crash and find itself having to automatically restart itself. Not a
deal breaking issue per se, but definitely unappealing for most
people.“Now, to be ultimately fair, I should concede that I’m unsure if
this is actually a GNOME panel problem or a video driver rendering
issue with the various desktops I’ve witnessed this on. It only
happens occasionally, yet I’ve seen the problem on NVIDIA, ATI and
Intel video card-based computers. This leads me to think this may
be a GNOME issue based on the findings. But there may very well be
a non-Desktop environment issues at hand here. I’m leaning toward
thinking it’s a GNOME problem, though.”