Gnome Panel Broken

[Ivan Uemlianin <i a uemlianin celtic co uk>]

Dear All

I recently updated some of my Gnome 1.4 packages; now the panels are 
malfunctioning.
Applets can no longer be added to panels.  The menus (i.e. panel > add 
to panel > applet > etc.) work, but all that gets added to the panel is 
a Gnome footprint/question mark icon, which doesn't do anything, and 
which has no properties (i.e there's no properties option in its 
right-click menu).  Especially annoying: the applets I already had in 
the panels (tasklist and mini-commander) were removed and replaced by 
these question mark icons.
Any leads appreciated.

* Background:

I am currently running Gnome 1.4 on SuSE 7.2.

I uninstalled the rpms for, and installed the source for:

            rpm        source
gdk-pixbuf  ?          0.14.0
gnome-vfs   ?          1.0.3
libxml      1.8.11-53  1.8.16
oaf         0.6.5-30   0.6.7

I did './configure --prefix="/opt/gnome" ' for each, as SuSE puts GNOME 
in /opt.



Best wishes

Ivan Uemlianin