GNOME panel is, well, the panel in GNOME. You know, the bar you see at the top and at the bottom of your desktop, with menus and lots of applets on it. That's it. That's the panel.

This is the "Mieux vaux tard que jamais" release: it comes way too late for the GNOME 2.9.1 release, but we want people to be able to test this unstable release without waiting for GNOME 2.9.2.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.