"No module named gnomeapplet " error when trying to run battery indicator
ImportError: No module named gnomeapplet
In Gnome 2 - this python module would be installed by the package python-gnomeapplet.
However - this python module is not compatible with the Gnome 3 Panel - so the package has been dropped.
python-gnomeapplet is no longer being developed as Python developers need to use GObject Introspection instead of PyGTK to work with GTK3.
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