I got sick of the KDE desktop that Knoppix installed on my laptop by default (slow, and the control bar or whatever they call it used up too much screen real estate), so I've gone back to windowmaker. For ICQ I use ickle, and it used to be on my desktop that ickle had a little applet that sat in the gnome panel and told me if I had any messages.
So I apt-get'd gnome-panel, and found that one needs to install the ickle-gnome package to get the applet. However, the applet doesn't appear in the panel automagically (this is the way I seem to recall it working) on execution of ickle either from the menu on the panel or a console, and executing ickle-gnome from the menu gets this error message: (gnome-panel:32399): Wnck-CRITICAL **: file workspace.c: line 133 (wnck_workspace_get_number): assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)' failed The GNOME panel is not running. spat out to the terminal I executed gnome-panel from. Now, the Gnome panel is running, I can see it there, and I can run other things from the menu alright. I get a similar message when running gaim. I've tried both the unstable and testing versions of gnome panel. I'm inclined to submit this as a bug. I can't see anything reported on debian's bugtracking thing. However, every time I've submitted a bug report in the past it's turned out to be more to do with my own stupidity than actual bugs, so I thought I'd check to see whether anyone else has this problem, or has any suggestions. Andrew.
