Panel applets crash in Linux Mint Katya

[Jamie Quinlan]

When Gnome15 is installed on Linux Mint Katya, I get an error stating that some of the applets on the panel cannot be loaded, and asks me to delete them. This does happen at random occasions.

Repro:
Step 1: Install Gnome15 from katya repro
Step 2 Restart gnome panels using killall gnome-panel
Observed: Gnome Panels reload with errors at random intervals.
Expected: Panels reload without errors all the time.

[tanktarta (tanktarta)]

I *think* this may have been caused by a change to the startup phase Gnome15 is in.

There are 5 phases (from http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession) :-

Initialization (started first)
WindowManager
Panel
Desktop
Applications (started last)

Early on in the 0.7.x release (0.7.3 maybe), I changed this from "Applications" to "Initialization" to try and fix a problem where g15-indicator would sometimes get the status wrong (because it was starting at the same time as g15-desktop-service).

In 0.7.6, I changed this again to "WindowManager" instead, in an attempt to get rid of this very problem. So, is it any better now in 0.7.6?

If not, you could try manually changing the startup phase by editing /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome15.desktop, and changing the "X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase" field. You first try "Panel", then "Desktop", then "Applications". If you get as far as "Applications" before it starts working properly, then I will have to find another solution to the g15-indicator problem.

Assuming of course this is the actual cause :)

[Jamie Quinlan (jaymeskeller)]

After looking at the file, none of the phases seems to have made the error stop. Seeing as it's random, I'm not sure if it's due to a conflict somewhere. I did notice, though, that in gedit, the "System" word in "Categories" seems to be highlighted in red. I don't know if that's to do with anything, though.