Comment 22 for bug 552221

dmn86 wrote on 2010-05-06:

> Have the same problem. When I was on 9.10 volume control applet was present on panel. I'm sure I have not removed it
> manually. After upgrading to 10.04 it disappeared from panel and cannot be found both in system->startup and "rightclick->add
> to panel". I'm not experienced linux user, but for me it looks like volum control applet was deinstalled while updating and now
> there is nothing of similar functionality installed.

I'm an experienced user and I found this annoying as well. Applets shouldn't disappear like that. The idea of a do-everything applet is a bad idea. What happened to the philosophy of "do one thing, but do it well"? Now I have to dink around with Preferences->Startup_Applications instead of simply adding it to the panel.