The new ebuild tracker-0.5.4 has included a deskbar-applet handler, which unfortunately doesn`t work. deskbar refuses to load tracker, because of a coding error. I discovered a fix at the mailing list of tracker. Just add the line # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top of /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/tracker-handler.py Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Emerge tracker with use-flag "applet"
Committed a patch for this pulled from SVN.