Bug 329191

Summary: WindowList and Workspace Switcher applet fail to start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Willem Huijbers <jan.willem>
Component: gnome-appletsAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan Willem Huijbers 2007-10-12 08:36:32 UTC
Description of problem:
Some applets fail to start when booting Fedora7. among these applets are:
Windowlist, WorkspaceSwitcher and WindowSelector. ( Other applets work fine)

Booting or adding these applets to the panel gives this error:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F7 with all patches

How reproducible:
Add the applet to the panel/ reboot

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Error

Expected results:
Working Applet

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Willem Huijbers 2007-10-13 18:30:11 UTC
error messages:
* (gnome-panel:2423): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1283: failed to load
applet OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet:
Failed to resolve, or extend
!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_32/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=small;locked_down=false

** (gnome-panel:2423): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1283: failed to load
pplet OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet:
Failed to resolve, or extend
'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_33/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=small;locked_down=false

Comment 2 Jan Willem Huijbers 2007-10-20 09:04:50 UTC
Fixed it.

The problem was fixed by entering init  3:

rpm -e --nodeps gnome-panel
rpm -e --nodeps gnome-applets

yum install gnome-applets

Don't know why, cause both packages were installed and showed the same version
before and after.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:43:41 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:39:09 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

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