[Bug 5811] Re: gdesklets hangs on launch from gnome menu.

[Matt Galvin]

this seems to be because python2.4-orbit is missing...

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gdesklets --help

You're running gDesklets for the first time.
gDesklets will start a requirements check now...

Checking requirements:
 - sys ... found
 - xml.parsers.expat ... found
 - xml.sax ... found
 - gtk ... found
 - ORBit ... found
Version check failed.

ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required.

Please make sure that the required software is installed.
Also try to avoid having multiple versions of a library/binding on your system.
gDesklets won't work if you don't have all necessary dependencies installed
on your system.

THE STARTUP WILL BE CANCELLED NOW!
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sudo apt-get install python2.4-orbit

then re-running gdesklets seems make it work correctly.
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gdesklets hangs on launch from gnome menu.
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5811