Bug#518382: gnome-applets: CPU Frequency Scaling Is Invisible when added to panel and is therefore unusable!

[Deniz Akcal]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Right clicking on panel and selecting “Add to Panel” and choosing “CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor” creates an invisible icon in which you need to guess where it is if you want to remove the invisible 
icon from the panel by right clicking everywhere. If you catch its location, you can manage to get to the preferences etc but that doesn't help with using the applet. I've seen this bug closed but 
the bug is still very much there on 32 and 64 bit Lenny! (I am reporting from 64 bit Lenny computer) This is important since it can allow students like myself to lock our CPU's multipliers at 6x 
(Core 2 Duo or Pentium Dual-Core for example) and save battery power; it can also be (slightly) useful for over-clockers that don't always need the extra speed! And of course, it can be used by 
those who just want to be environmentally friendly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data     2.22.3-3          Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel            2.20.3-5          launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.19-2         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-esd [gst 0.10.8-4.1~lenny1 GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.8-4.1~lenny1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libapm1                3.2.2-12          Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcpufreq0            004-2             shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.22.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomekbd2           2.22.0-1          GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui2         2.22.0-1          User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra     1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7             2.22.3-1          gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap6          1:2.22.3-2        Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libgweather1           2.22.3-1          GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-5          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22              2.22.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxklavier12          3.5-2             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  python                 2.5.2-3           An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  deskbar-applet                2.22.3.1-1 universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media                   2.22.0-3   GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet        2.12.1-2   Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor          2.22.3-1   Process viewer and system resource
ii  python-gnome2                 2.22.0-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  acpid                         1.0.8-1    Utilities for using ACPI power man
pn  cpufreqd | cpudyn | powernowd <none>     (no description available)
ii  tomboy                        0.10.2-1   desktop note taking program using 

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false