Comment 1 for bug 164314

 It's a weird bug. I've got installed Mandriva2008 in my box and it doesn't happen. However I ran a virtual machine and I tested gdesklet in Debian and I can confirm this bug. I'm trying to fix it but the debugging process isn't very clean.

 When a client detect that the daemon isn't running it executes some routines to start it but if the client hasn't got a good answer it sleeps 0.1 seconds. I discovered inside gdesklets-daemon, function _gdesklets_main() fails when import the Started() class. However the __init__ hasn't got any try/except. I thought the bug exists because some method didn't trap any error and it just returned a "pass".

p.s sorry my English :-( I don't if you can get the idea?