Comment 3 for bug 271925

The reason is because:

ooops@wald:~$ /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -d -w
...
10-11 17:46:41 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader ERROR problem in /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/tracker-module.py - <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named gnomedesktop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/ModuleLoader.py", line 98, in import_module
    mod = pydoc.importfile (filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 259, in importfile
    raise ErrorDuringImport(path, sys.exc_info())
ErrorDuringImport: problem in /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/tracker-module.py - <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named gnomedesktop

It needs porting. Commenting out the offending import and doing a return 0 in the respective routing where gnomedesktop is used lets it start again. However, I have no idea what functionality is lost.

Crazy that such a feature is in this state at beta. I thought tracker is the default ubuntu desktop search and deskbar-applet the standard way to use it? Is nobody using this?