Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77534
can't add applet to panel
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:14 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: If, for whatever reason, the applet dies, i cannot add it again to the panel. I looked to all applet menus, and to all other menus available, and there's no trace of rhn-applet anywhere. I think rhn-applet should be added to the applet menus. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Kill rhn-applet 2.Try to add it again to the panel 3. Actual Results: Can't find the applet in the menus. Expected Results: The applet should be somewhere in the applet menus, so that the user can re-add it to the panel. Additional info: Looks like rhn-applet is the only one having a .desktop file in /usr/share/applets That makes me think this directory is not used anymore. What's the new directory to be used for the .desktop files of new or custom applets?
This is a pretty good point. I upgraded from 7.3.94 to 8.0 and the rhn-applet-gui was not available by default. I have to start it manually on my upgraded machine, but it works without a hitch on my newly installed workstation.
The applet is available from the following menus: - Main menu - System tools submenu - Red Hat Network Alert Icon This should work fine assuming you have a notification area in your panel. To start a notification area: - right click on the panel - select add to this panel - then Utility - then notification area I you have an rhn-applet running in the background it may appear in the notification area when added. Daniel