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. ***