Comment 3 for bug 568250

I'm afraid that hasn't quite fixed the bug.

When hddtemp isn't running, adding the computertemp applet to the panel causes something completely unusable to be added to the panel! I'm seeing 1 black pixel appear on the panel (against the new transparent background - nice!), or sometimes a vertical line of black pixels! it doesn't appear to be selectable and I have to kill it via a terminal! This is arguably worse than before. :oP

Once hddtemp is running, I am able to add computertemp. I am then able to get to it's preferences and select that I want to use hwmon instead of hddtemp. This is as it was before.

Having got computertemp started and using hwmon, I can then also stop hddtemp without affecting computertemp. So computertemp is clearly capable of running without hddtemp, even though having hddtemp running is currently a requirement of running computertemp.

Let me know if you need any more testing doing - I'm happy to help.