Comment 26 for bug 183368

I see whats happening for at least some of these now. It has to do with APPLET_NAME and APPLET_MAIN_FILE in Makefile.python-applet. Look at the code:

appletdir = $(libdir)/awn/applets/$(APPLET_NAME)

install-exec-local:
            $(INSTALL) -m 755 "$(APPLET_MAIN_FILE)" "$(DESTDIR)$(appletdir)/$(APPLET_MAIN_FILE)"

Media-icon-back makefile.am:

SUBDIRS = icons
APPLET_NAME = medialogoback
APPLET_MAIN_FILE = medialogoback.py
include $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.python-applet
dist_applet_DATA = \
 COPYING \
 mediaplayers.py \
 $(NULL)

EG: I now have a directory /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/medialogoback and the applet files that are there should actually be in /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/media-icon-back

The media icon and gmail applets all have in common the fact that the desktop file has a different name than the directory the applet files should be in. I think renaming these might fix this.