Bug#657084: gnome-applets: None of the applets work in Gnome 3.

[Michael Biebl]

On 23.01.2012 23:23, Dominique Brazziel wrote:
> Package: gnome-applets
> Version: 3.2.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
>     I just upgraded this system from gnome2 to gnome3 today after testing
> gnome3 in fallback mode one one machine and fresh install on another.
> There are a few applets I use consistently, CPU freq-util, gweather and
> a couple of others, and these don't work in gnome 3.
> 
>     The first thing I noticed is they can't be found from the search bar
> or the application menu.  Second is although they may be started from the 
> command line, they don't display anything, or they may be invisible 
> due to the black root window of the X server (undocumented swith '-br'
> sets the 'blackout' look.)  
> 

Please be more specific about which applets you tried to enable.


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