Bugzilla Bug 104820

several panel-applets don't work anymore in gnome 2.12:

Show Desktop
Sticky Notes
Window List
Window Selector
Workspace Switcher

Volume Control seems to work sometimes and sometimes it's not able to add it

all the other standard applets plus gxmms work though. note that this is after a
reboot, and i'm not the only one having this issue, so it's probably not related
to my setup

the error messages are all of type 'The panel encountered a problem while
loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet".'

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=opteron"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/blubb/gentoo/cvs/gentoo-x86 /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aalib alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cdrom crypt cups curl dvd
eds encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg
ldap lzw lzw-tiff motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ntfs
ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds quicktime readline samba sdl slang
spell ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales utf8 vorbis
xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

have you restarted the session and done a revdep-rebuild ?

yes, i followed the instructions in your devspace

looks like upgrading gtk+ to 2.8.3-r1 solved this issue too...
b33fc0d3, can you confirm that?

confirmed, therefore closing

*** Bug 106413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***