Gnome15 Indicator and g15-desktop-service suddenly fail to start on Raring 13.04

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The Quantal version was running smoothly here on Raring with a G19 keyboard and I was enjoying all the great functionality, the Gnome15 software was providing, a lot. So first I want to thank you for your awesome work, it is highly appreciated !!!

Unfortunately after recent Raring updates, Gnome15 now completely fails to start...

If I try to start g15-desktop-service I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/g15-desktop-service", line 131, in <module>
    start_service(options)
  File "/usr/bin/g15-desktop-service", line 85, in start_service
    import gnome15.g15service as g15service
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome15/g15service.py", line 23, in <module>
    from gnome15 import g15accounts
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome15/g15accounts.py", line 35, in <module>
    import g15util
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome15/g15util.py", line 28, in <module>
    import Image
ImportError: No module named Image

Please make Gnome15 compatible to and run on Raring also.

[Nuno Araujo (russo79)]

This is a upstream problem.
Take a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-imaging/+bug/1112496
You can either downgrade a previous version or wait for the upstream bug to be resolved.

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russo79, thanks a lot for the fast response, answer and proposed solution :)

[Nuno Araujo (russo79)]

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For information, you can currently work around this problem by manually modifying all the gnome15 files.

You need to do the following replacements:
"import Image" -> "import PIL.Image"
"import ImageMath" -> "import PIL.ImageMath"
"import ImageOps" -> "import PIL.ImageOps"

In the following files (I am not sure that this list is complete):
/usr/share/gnome15/plugins/notify-lcd/notify-lcd.py
/usr/share/gnome15/plugins/g15daemon-server/g15daemon-server.py
/usr/share/pyshared/gnome15/drivers/driver_g15direct.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome15/drivers/driver_g15direct.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome15/drivers/driver_gtk.py
/usr/share/gnome15/plugins/indicator-messages/indicator-messages.py
/usr/share/gnome15/plugins/indicator-me/indicator-me.py

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russo79, thanks for the information about the workaround. :)
For now I've downgraded python-imaging to the Quantal version to workaround this issue.
I might try your other workaround as well, if I accidentially upgrade python-imaging again ;),
but for now I am happy that I can continue to use Gnome15 on Raring now...