well as I said I would try above I unpacked the fedora RPM ( I did that in fedora , ubntu archive manager didnt speak rpm) and copied the fedora /usr/lib64/gdesklets to ubuntu /usr/lib64/gdesklets and the fedora /usr/share/gdesklets to ubuntu /usr/share/gdesklets also the mime ,pixmaps and aplications entrys to the respective ubuntu dirs and ran /usr/lib64/gdesklets/gdesklets in a terminal and miricle of miricles it runs :) . had to copy the controls etc i had kept from ubuntu's deb into /usr/share/gdesklets since the fedora version didnt have any there but its working and nothing is smoking yet.
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