Problems running gdesklets

[Saket Kulkarni]

I've been trying for three days to get Gdesklets to run on my FreeBSD 5.2 
system.  It's been the most frustrating experience of my very short 
FreeBSD career.  One dependency after the other crashed during make or 
wouldn't run or couldn't be found.  After consulting the 
www.freebsd.org/gnome pages and running the necessary gnome update 
scripts, I finally got the Gdesklets port installed and lo and behold, I 
get the following error when I try to launch it:

# gdesklets
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets", line 10, in ?
     from main import init
   File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
     from utils.i18n import Translator
   File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
     from FileWatcher import FileWatcher
   File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/utils/FileWatcher.py", line 3, in 
?
     import gtk
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", 
line 43, in ?
     from _gtk import *
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_gtk.so: 
Undefined symbol "PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode"

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I have no idea how to begin to fix this or patch it and I'm verging on 
giving up on the project all together (it's just that those desklets are 
so damn cool!).

Does anybody know how I can solve this issue and finally start enjoying my 
fancy desktop displays?

Thanks in advance,

Saket.