Comment 28 for bug 72172

Upstream wants to deprecate gnome-desktop in the near future. The patch for it looks pretty straightforward. The worst case, if this is included, would probably be that if Gnome takes another approach in a future release and that then the old recent application list might not be read anymore after an upgrade. (Which is not really a problem IMHO.) In the mean time this could work for Gutsy users with gnome-main-menu installed.

I did not yet review the gnome-panel patch, though and I will test both patches in the course of next week. Maybe it could be included then, if the patch to gnome-panel also boils down to be quite minimal and straightforward. But IANAUD.