Have you tried right clicking on a panel widget and picking 'Lock to Panel'?

1. Ubuntu will still use GNOME -- just with a different way to switch between applications.
2. GNOME Shell ain't ready till it's ready. The delays however are not the point.

It is still concerning -- hell, misleading, confusing to have an "Open Office.org Community Council" made by 100% Oracle employees and 0% community.

FOSS advertisements currently running:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53346/open-source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2010

FOSS advertisements that have run until recently (but probably still can do with some help):
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010-closed

Yes, but I doubt any program on that list doesn't already have platform specific code.

Quoting the grandparent:

"Google already announced ... you will be able to install apps on your phone from any device in the cloud."

Durr...

"The fact that this page is only accessible using the Safari browser..."

HTTP is still all the rage. GMail is still email. Twitter is not an IRC replacement. Youtube is also not an FTP replacement. Web boards are starting to get aged themselves.

"If you right crappy code full of security holes, what do they do let it run anyway even though it will negatively impact THEIR hardware owners?"

If you stopped righting (?) and started thinking you'd understand that you can also (ahem) write shitty software in C, C++ or Objective-C. It's not what you use, it's how you use it.

"You CHOSE to buy Apple fully aware of the restrictions, then blame Apple when those restrictions finally affect you in a negative way."

More like, "you CHOSE to buy Apple fully aware of the restrictions, then Apple CHANGED them and you blame them because they NOW affect you in a negative way."

I for one am going to point out that the tons of apps were there before the restriction was put in place. People who were looking for the iPad version of their favourite iPod app will be out of luck if they didn't use The One True Toolkit.

10.04 user since the whereabouts of alpha 4. No regressions here. Just sayin'. :)

Well, you probably need to be a licensee to sell licenses, right?

http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244

Instead of shrugging off stuff they can't bundle with Ubuntu ("it's not free so you're on your own boyo"), they offer a way to get it legally for those who wish to do so. In the meantime, Ubuntu still ships with H.264-hating Firefox, choosing it over Chrome/-ium. Oh so evil of them.

How about banning bad and lazy applications then?
How about restructuring the store so that it presents good and fast apps before the cruft?
If the app store doesn't scale well with popularity, maybe it's the store that needs fixing, not the developers.

Oh, and while we are at it, do game consoles official SDKs also tie me to owning a Mac/Windows/specific flavour of Linux before I can even begin to consider starting any development? Do game consoles forbid you to use frameworks that build upon "the official SDK"? Are game consoles artificially limited to the makers' store? Have people have had any trouble of not-just-working-ess with the XBox because of this? Can I publish a puzzle game for the Wii, or am I forbidden because it partially overlaps with Nintendo's Brain Training? If I want to write a PS3 game in brainfuck, is there any EULA getting in my way?