permission to commit patch for #168679 ?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

I patched this bug today; the patch does change memory management 
somewhat, so perhaps is not risk-free, however it does seem to be 
correct and is in response to a significant panel/applet leak.

The bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168679

The patch:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=38093&action=view

comment from Federico:

> /------- Additional Comment #13 
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168679#c13> From Federico 
> Mena Quintero <mailto:federico ximian com> 2005-03-01 12:54 ------- /
>
> The patch is fine; indeed, since the "any" is not being allocated from a
> skeleton, its value doesn't get freed.  The patch should go on CVS.

Comments?  I'm happy to commit and re-dist if you guys give the (modern, 
not Roman) thumbs-up.

- Bill