gnome-swallow-applet

[dm <linux1011@hotpop.com>]

Gnome Swallow Applet has is buggy on my system.

It works fine with any normal dockapp, but when trying to add a second 
it gives me the following error:


"OAFID: GNOME_Swallow"
Details: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.ord/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'


There is a bug report filed but it is tagged a unreproducable.
Yet I can reproduce it with both the official package and the one at the 
package's homepage http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/technology/swallow/


I am thinking something is seriously wrong with my system.


In addition when running gnome-theme configurator none of the themes 
preview properly and almost none of them change properly.


Are these related? Should I just wait for things to be fixed upstream? 
Or is my debian sid box on crack?

Thank you for your help in advance.