Comment 43 for bug 519583

Thanks to denham2010's excellent tip at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515732

I managed to edit Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 panel without switching to Gnome.

The file to edit is here:
/var/lib/gconf/une.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml

Here are my changes which got system monitor in the panel:
neva@neva-aone:/var/lib/gconf/une.mandatory$ diff %gconf-tree.xml gconf-tree.xml.original
58,60d57
< <li type="string">
< <stringvalue>applet_7</stringvalue>
< </li>
151,164d147
< <dir name="applet_7">
< <entry name="object_type" mtime="1272540841" type="string">
< <stringvalue>bonobo-applet</stringvalue>
< </entry>
< <entry name="toplevel_id" mtime="1272540841" type="string">
< <stringvalue>top_panel</stringvalue>
< </entry>
< <entry name="panel_right_stick" mtime="1272540841" type="bool" value="true"/>
< <entry name="position" mtime="1272540841" type="int" value="1"/>
< <entry name="locked" mtime="1272540841" type="bool" value="true"/>
< <entry name="bonobo_iid" mtime="1272540841" type="string">
< <stringvalue>OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet</stringvalue>
< </entry>
< </dir>

Screen shot of the new UNR session:
http://arcadia.anime.fi/~n/aspireone/UNR/UNR-sysmon-added.png

Simple way to start with the terminal:
cd /var/lib/gconf/une.mandatory/
sudo cp %gconf-tree.xml gconf-tree.xml.original
sudo wget http://arcadia.anime.fi/~n/aspireone/UNR/%25gconf-tree.xml

Logout and login.
Right click on the new thin line in the top bar, choose preferences and adjust system monitor width to get it to draw correctly.