Comment 31 for bug 15442

This still occurs in 10.04 "Lucid" and 10.10 "Maverick". I have just encountered it myself. I had deleted the top panel & moved its contents to the bottom one, Windows-XP-style.

I decided to revert to the GNOME style. I created a new one, positioned it at the top, and moved the menu, launch icons and clock to it.

This worked fine until I rebooted, at which point, both panels revert to the top.

If I go into Properties and try to move the task-switcher panel's position to "bottom", it instantly reverts to "top". If I use gconf-editor to do it, it moves until it autohides, at which point it snaps back to the top again.

I'm amazed that in more than 3 or 4 years, this hasn't been fixed!