Bug#380137: I had encountered the same problem

[Romain Francoise]

"Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz at gmail.com> writes:

> At last, this problem is solved simply by `aptitude reinstall
> python-gtk2 python-support'.

So this was probably some temporary glitch in pygtk, and in any case
it's not a bug in deskbar-applet.

I'm closing this report now, feel free to reopen if the bug still
occurs.

Thanks,

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