Comment 9 for bug 553918

This issue annoyed me so much that I downloaded the 0.3.6 source and edited it to create a workaround.
For those affected who are using Lucid, you can work around the problem by copying my 2 executables over the ones that come installed from the package in the repos.

Download the packages from here:
http://tug.hopto.org/patchedindicator-applet

then as root, copy them to:
/usr/lib/indicator-applet

then restart/logout

it is not a "fix" but it works, and for now, that is good enough for me.