If this is the same gnome.applet is gone bug revelation had in debian, there is a patch available at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi/gnomeapplet.patch?bug=376149;msg=27;att=1 Be advised that the patch is reversed, so apply with -R. Basically you need to replace gnome.applet.Applet with gnomeapplet.Applet HTH -- revelation: could not import gnome.applet https://launchpad.net/bugs/70399 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs