Feature: Restore budgie-panel to defaults, warn on deleting the default panel

[fastrizwaan]

It is very easy to delete the panels,

1. Go to Raven->Panel settings
2. Manage Panels, Press + and press -
3. The default panel is gone :(

Now I the user have to manually add items unless he/she knows

alt+f2 "terminal"

$ dconf reset -f /com/solus-project/budgie-panel/
$ nohup budgie-panel --replace

Please warn the user when the default panel is being removed.

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[ikeydoherty]

We don't keep track of what is and isn't the "default panel". The second you do anything to it, it's no longer default.

I'm happy to add a prompt in Raven to ask you to confirm removing a panel if it has any applets ?

[fastrizwaan]

yes, that would be nice.

[kneerunjun]

I just now messed that up !!!, was changing a few settings on panel and had no idea the "status indicator" had the menu panel-settings-menu. I removed the "status indicator" and had no clue how to get it back! 😄 .. now 🐬 recovered with the command above --- sheeeesh .. such a relief!

Nevertheless - that does change my opinion on budgie! - 👍 take my upvote .. coolest desktop till date

[ikeydoherty]

Added an option to reset the entire panel from the terminal, budgie-panel --replace --reset:

3a1d67b

[ikeydoherty]

Removing panels also nukes them from dconf tree:
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[ikeydoherty]

[ikeydoherty]

This will feature in the next release of Budgie.

[Crare]

I still removed the panel even with the warning. It doesn't tell you it deletes the panel completely and there's no way to get it back and with just gui? Maybe just add option to reset panels to default? Also it would help if you could find the panel-thing somehow after you remove it completely.

[ikeydoherty]

Sorry but the warning couldn't be any clearer. What else do you think it's going to do?

[ikeydoherty]

And if you need to do a full reset:

budgie-panel --reset --replace&

[subhaniminhas]

I need to Install Ubuntu Budgie Remix on multiple work related PCs. I have to configure Budgie Desktop in a certain manner again and again. Any ways I take make a backup of Budgie Desktop settings and restore again on a new installation. Any configuration file I can copy?

[simone98dm]

I have a similar issue, I have installed Budgie as desktop environment on Linux Mint 18 and I deleted the "main" panel (upper panel). How I can restore the panel?
Nowadays I run the command budgie-panel --reset --replace every time when I start the pc, but it doesn't save the config which I have done.
Any ideas about how to solve it?

[fossfreedom]

@subhaniminhas yours is a different issue - suggest raise a new issue.

@simone98dm again - this appears to be a new issue. suggest raise a new issue - dont run the reset method - CTRL+ALT+T to open a terminal on login and just run budgie-panel --replace & - hopefully there will be an error message or two indicating what your issue is.