The gnome dictionary panel applet no longer appears in the list of applets when I right-click on a panel and select "Add to Panel..." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Log in to gnome right-click on a panel select "Add to Panel..." Actual Results: The Add to Panel dialog box does appear and lists the following - Custom Application Launcher - Application Launcher... - Brightness Applet - Character Palette - Clock etc [42 items total] but the dictionary applet is not among them anymore. Expected Results: Finding the dictionary applet in the list Workaround: Users can run "gnome-dictionary" on the command-line or by selecting Office --> Dictionary in the Gnome menu
Do you have gnome-extra/gnome-utils built with USE="bonobo"?
- Re-emerged gnome-extra/gnome-utils with USE="bonobo" - Logged out of Gnome - Logged back in to Gnome - Now the applet appears in the list, but when I add it, I get a pop-up saying The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_DictionaryApplet". Note: I am using dual-display mode and when I logged back in to Gnome, the dictionary panel applet on the second display re-appeared where it had always been. It is only if I try to re-add a dictionary panel applet on the first display that it fails. I used to have a dictionary applet on each display, but now it only works on the second display...
Do you have gnome-panel-2.32.1-r1 installed? In that case, please attach ~/.xsession-errors just after you get the failure. Do you get this problem with other applets also? (probably other bonobo based applets)
I have gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.32.1-r1 It is also happening with glunarclock-applet-2 0.34.1 Meaning, it is present and working on the second display but any attempt to add it on the first display gives The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_GLunarclockApplet". the ~/.xsession-errors file was really quite big because it is about 6 years old, so I deleted it. The errors when trying to add either the dictionary or lunar clock applet do NOT create the file, I am guessing the error is not being logged. There might be some upstream bugs, there are lots of things that don't work quite right with dual-display, lots of times panel pop-ups (to configure preferences or to create launchers) do not appear on the display they were invoked from but always on the first display, although these are separate issues, there might be a relation there...
Please comment in: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632369 Your problems with gnome-panel and patches from that upstream bug report applied to let Vuntz know *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348253 ***
