deskbar preventing garnome-2.14.1 compile

[Keith Vertrees <keith vativ com>]

Hello, I'm having trouble with the deskbar applet preventing compilation
of garnome-2.14.1.

I searched the mailing list archives and the most promising lead I found
was:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2006-February/msg00028.html

Unfortunately, while that problem was very similar to what I'm seeing,
the patch they describe integrating is already in garnome-2.14.1.

I believe my problem is caused because:
1. I installed a new version of Python just for garnome (e.g. --prefix=
   $HOME/garnome); and
2. For some reason, deskbar's configure script does not understand that
   completely.

Here are the last few lines of the 'make install' attempt:
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checking whether /usr/bin/python version >= 2.3... yes
checking for /usr/bin/python version... 2.3
checking for /usr/bin/python platform... linux2
checking for /usr/bin/python script directory...
${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory...
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
checking for pkg-config... /home/keith/garnome/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for DESKBAR... yes
checking for python version... (cached) 2.3
checking for python platform... (cached) linux2
checking for python script directory... (cached)
${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... (cached)
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for gnomeapplet module... no
configure: error: gnomeapplet module required to build deskbar
make: *** [configure-work/main.d/deskbar-applet-2.14.1/configure] Error
1
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The files
$HOME/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnomeapplet.so
$HOME/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnomeapplet.la
exist.  I think that means that gnomeapplet is installed in my garnome
version of Python.

deskbar seems to look for /usr/bin/python, ignoring the fact that
$HOME/garnome/bin/python exists and is a newer version.  All of the
other garnome components found the correct python without any
intervention by me.