Just to satisfy my curiosity I logged-in as a different user. The applet worked fine. So I deleted my .directories and logged back in and it works fine now. I don't have the motivation to fix this now that it's gone so I'm rejecting this bug.
Thanks again for your time Sebastien. ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- [edgy-regression] drivemount applet (Disk Mounter) completely blank https://launchpad.net/bugs/67870 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs