Hello All,

I can't seem to get the shell to gDesklets open any more the daemon seems to start up fine. but if I try to open the shell I get the following error:

==========================================================[11/09/05-15:37:53]====== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened.

[EXC]list index out of range
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-shell: line 9 ?
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py: line 52 get_plugin
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py: line 40 get_plugins_by_pattern
in ./Shell/__init__.py: line 70 init
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/Plugin.py: line 18 _get_plugins_by_pattern
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py: line 40 get_plugins_by_pattern
in ./Profiles/__init__.py: line 24 init
in ./Profiles/__init__.py: line 39 __build_menu
in ./Menu/__init__.py: line 169 set_check_item
in ./Menu/__init__.py: line 79 __set_node
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/plugins/Menu/__init__.py

[---] 74 if (not submenu):
[---] 75 submenu = gtk.Menu()
[---] 76 pitem.set_submenu(submenu)
[---] 77
[---] 78 parent, index = self.__get_node(path)
[ERR]> 79 name, nil, children = parent[index]
[---] 80 parent[index] = (name, item, children)
[---] 81 submenu.insert(item, index)
[---] 82
[---] 83
[---] 84
[---] 85 #
...

if anyone has had this problem and knows how to fix it. any help would be great!!!
Thanks

What version of gDesklets did you install, and was a pre-compiled packaged for your distro or compiled from source? When you say it won't load anymore, does that mean it was working and you have installed a plugin it's not happy with? If so, simply move the plugin out of the gDesklets directory and re-start the daemon. A lot of plugins such as the calendar and countdown plugins I looked at recently only work with the latest releases and would crash upon loading, but at least the daemon and other desklets would carry on working.

Hello,

I do believe it was the latest one but I will have to check when I get home. I installed it from the add programs menu in Ubuntu. It was working fine with just a weather plugin and a Mac looking launcher. I didn't add a plugin or anything and the daemon would come up but no plugins. Also when I try to go into the manger I get that error listed at the top. So I can't even get into the manger to install or uninstall a plugin. I thought maybe a theme was the problem but that didn't seem to help. I've also reinstalled everything including python that also didn't help.