Comment 10 for bug 277084

Same for me. the icon is missing. Same with power-manager icon.
When you restart hal the power manager icon shows just for a second or two.
I just recalled that I had same problem with previous upgrade -> 7.4 i guess.
If you create new account on your computer (with empty home/newuser) and log into you will see the icon.
So it must be something broken with the configuration files.
I will try to find out which file is it - i guess one from gnome configuration. But unfortunately don't have lots of time.