I upgraded to xfce4.2.0 (which was recently marked stable on x86), aferwards the datetime plugin was no longer working. Upgrading to the latest masked version (xfce4-datetime-0.3.1-r1) solved the problem. Don't know about other arches, but i assume the situation is similar. Btw: This is more or less related to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78462 but as it deals with xfce4 4.1.99.3 and most of the plugins mentioned there seem to be marked stable already i decided to file a seperate bug about. Feel free to mark as duplicate though. ;) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update xfce4 to 4.2.0 2. Right-Click on panel -> Add new item -> "Date and Time" Missing 3. Get xfce-extra/xfce4-datetime-0.3.1-r1 -> "Date and Time" appears and plugin works Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 19 2004, 10:30:12)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups divx4linux emacs encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
marked stable thanks