After adding gnome-pilot applet nothing can be seen in the panel although applet works as I can synchronize PDA. See detailed description at provided URL and patch (comment#16) which I have tried and it works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Is there an upstream bug report to go with this patch ?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584894
Fixed into the main tree with a revision bump, Patch import from upstream. Thanks for reporting ;)