Comment 7 for bug 519553

I agree that would solve this problem in particular, Martin, but there would still need to be some access to that functionality so the handle or some other extra GUI change remains a necessity.

(Well, I always thought gnome-panel needed a full-fledged Edit mode and did away with that annoying locking / unlocking applets stuff, but the thing is almost gone now anyway and I don't think we could do that for a little bug fix).