Comment 14 for bug 451048

As I was not aware of the ppa for qutecom (and I still have to look into it), if like me you did a simple
sudo apt-get install qutecom
to have application installed in Ubuntu 9.10 amd64, it does work fine with the work arround described above :)

In addition, for those which would like to create a launcher in gnome panel on the Desktop, I have noticed it is better to use the full path to the binary of the application usr/bin/qutecom instead of simply qutecom.
So by re-using the type above, the full command of the launcher would be :
/usr/bin/qutecom -style plastique

Be sure to do a :
killall qutecom
before you retry to launch the application.

It works fine for me.
Hope it would help others :)

Cheers!