Applet Won't Run

[wmichaelb]

My own work flow is well matched by the Gnome 2.X desktop, and so I've installed PC-BSD with Gnome 2.32. One of the little bits that really helps my day is the contact-lookup-applet that lets me send a quick email without opening all of evolution. I went to FreshPorts.org, found the applet and tried both pkg_add and compiling from ports after deinstalling. The applet doesn't show up in the selection list for Gnome panel applets, nor will it run if I simply run the executable as root:

/usr/X11R6/libexec/contact-panel-applet

I've done some searching on the net, but not found any references about adding an applet that didn't involve other problems I'm not having.

Is there some thing else one needs to do to add a new applet to the panel? Thanks in advance.

[Cobalt]

I wonder if it'd work with GNOME 2.* installed with pkg_add? Maybe there's a problem with a directory or setting in PC-BSD's GNOME.

There are other applications, like Screenlets, that will probably do the same things that contact-lookup-applet can do.

[wmichaelb]

Actually, I tried that first, also with no results. When I tried compiling from source, I got an error message that said that it was already installed. So I ran deinstall and then installed it again. Same result. Thanks, though.

I've been running one or another version of Gnome for the last seven years. I know of no other applet or screenlet that does what this one does although I'm certainly open to finding one!

[Cobalt]

I installed contact-lookup-applet with pkg_add and it popped up in the applet list after I logged out and logged back in. It's listed as Address Book Search. I installed GNOME during the initial install in a virtual machine.

Hopefully that helps.

[Cobalt]

One more thing, make sure you already have contacts in Evolution before you add the applet or it'll crash. At least, that's what happened on my machine.