I've just upgraded a laptop, in the last 2 days, Jaunty -> Karmic ->
Lucid (one upgrade each night).

(This was a very vanilla Jaunty installation, previously upgraded from
Intrepid and kept the same for ages, very little extra installed,
virtually no settings changes, and used by its owner almost exclusively
for Firefox.)

Afterwards there was no volume control in the task bar.  It was
previously in a convenient location close to the top right.

The comments here say indicator-applet should be installed
automatically, but that clearly hasn't happened.

(There is an envelope in the task bar, but it is still the Evolution
launcher (which was there before), and looks like an open envelope
rather than a closed one.)

I wasn't surprised the volume control disappeared as the same happened
with my laptop, but in my case it's taken me 5 months to discover that's
because (a) the upgrade process removes the old applet, but doesn't
install the new applet, and (b) for some unclear reason the old volume
control cannot be added from the "Add to Panel" menu.

For my friend's laptop, I will follow the instructions to manually edit
startup applications to run the old applet.  The indicator applet would
confuse her due to the superfluous envelope, and also the new applet's
volume control is much harder to use with a mouse (she has physical
difficulties.)

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Volume control icon not present after upgrade to Lucid final
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552221
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