Comment 13 for bug 482684

Hi,
It certainly happens on Lucid sporadically. This morning I lost my network manager applet too. The difference is, none of the proposed methods work. (restarting nm-applet, reinstalling the package, or readding the indicator applet)

That makes me wonder about gconf settings which turns out to be true.

My very quick and dirty solution is:

- backup your .gconf folder to .gconf-bak and logout
- login. now you have clean desktop with a working network applet
- To restore your old settings, move your new .gconf to .gconf-fresh
- rename .gconf-bak to .gconf
- delete .gconf/apps/panels and copy the working panels from .gconf-fresh/apps/panels

This should work if everything else fails. Unfortunately I did not have time to investigate deeper to find the exact cause. I hope this helps

Cheers