The percentage of CPU that may have been because I am on a relatively low-spec'd computer.
I'm sure that 100% of the CPU was not being used by the applet, but there was some CPU being used which I thought was odd, and was the catalyst to me finding the bug. Thanks for confirming. -- Removing modem monitor applet from panel causes a crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/46165 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
