Binary package hint: gnome-panel
Workspace Switcher 2.18.1
Preferences menu (right click on the workspaces applet in the task bar to access this).
Doubleclick on one of the names in 'Workspace names' box.
Change the name to whatever, for example 'test' (without the quotes).
When cursor is still in 'Workspace names' box, click on 'Close'. Preferrences closes, but changed name is not retained.
Reopen Preferences and notice that name is the old name again, so not 'test' (unless 'test' was the previous name of course).
For example, if the name was 'Desk 1', it will remain 'Desk 1' and not become 'test'.
Workaround: press enter or click somewhere in the preferences window, and the change will be retained and effected immediately (for example, if the function 'Show workspace names in switcher' is checked, the names in the task-bar applet will change right away.
Running Gnome 2.18.1
Running Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn - released in April 2007. Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
Linux testserver 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 23 13:42:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/e-smith/files/users/vandenbergm
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux stusrig1 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
I think that this is the intended behavior... though I agree that there's no reason for it to clear it.