Comment 11 for bug 519553

This is the sort of severe and *OBVIOUS* usability issue that just kills Linux in the consumer space. I just installed 10.04 on a test system, went to (what I thought was) delete the mail icon, lost the other icons including the volume control applet, which I want. I browsed the web to restore it, found a comment about re-adding the Notification area. Did so, ending up with an empty space in the menu bar. Read a note about deleting ~/.gnome2 and re-log in, did so, got the battery and bluetooth icons back but still no volume icon.