The attached patch (reported upstream, too) is needed to have gnome-applets building on Gentoo/FreeBSD. It needs that the autotools chain is run, to compile fine on linux (on freebsd the two HAVE_* are undefined so it's good as-is). Thanks, Diego
Created attachment 66727 [details, diff] gnome-applets-2.10.1-fbsd.patch
Committed.