Comment 23 for bug 529052

I haven't tried the patch yet, but I got an update today that included gnome-power-manager (didn't check if indicator-application was included as well) and the issue is still there. On my end personally, I'm using Lucid with gnome-shell. It did work initially (even in gnome-shell) until sometime last week, when I noticed the power applet was just not appearing. I then also realized that my sound applet wasn't showing in gnome-shell either. I never really had the issue of the power applet flickering or moving to the left except once when I tried manually killing/restarting it a few times, and then only once. Other than that, I just have no applet in gnome-shell. When I try to switch to metacity, both the sound and power applets have X's for icons. The "About" for each lists "Indicator Applet" (also, the generic email/messaging applet appears in metacity, but not in gnome-shell, with the same "About" info). Is this a new thing to try to combine system applets into one centralized group? I guess for now "Indicator Applet" doesn't work with gnome-shell when the gnome-panels are missing.

I realize I'm adding a whole new variable with gnome-shell, but the icons are still not working properly in metacity for me, either. Is there a way of reverting to the old applets meanwhile until the issues are sorted out? Again, before sometime last week, both sound and power applets worked fine in gnome-shell....
Thanks.