Comment 25 for bug 552221

I've just upgraded a laptop, in the last 2 days, Jaunty -> Karmic -> Lucid (one upgrade each night).

(This was a very vanilla Jaunty installation, previously upgraded from Intrepid and kept the same for ages, very little extra installed, virtually no settings changes, and used by its owner almost exclusively for Firefox.)

Afterwards there was no volume control in the task bar. It was previously in a convenient location close to the top right.

The comments here say indicator-applet should be installed automatically, but that clearly hasn't happened.

(There is an envelope in the task bar, but it is still the Evolution launcher (which was there before), and looks like an open envelope rather than a closed one.)

I wasn't surprised the volume control disappeared as the same happened with my laptop, but in my case it's taken me 5 months to discover that's because (a) the upgrade process removes the old applet, but doesn't install the new applet, and (b) for some unclear reason the old volume control cannot be added from the "Add to Panel" menu.

For my friend's laptop, I will follow the instructions to manually edit startup applications to run the old applet. The indicator applet would confuse her due to the superfluous envelope, and also the new applet's volume control is much harder to use with a mouse (she has physical difficulties.)