Now gdesklets don't use pyorbit. --- gdesklets-0.36.3/configure.ac.orig 2015-07-15 18:26:57.300336727 +0100 +++ gdesklets-0.36.3/configure.ac 2015-07-15 18:27:05.390425153 +0100 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADER([$PYTHON_PREFIX/include/ AC_ERROR([Can't find Python.h! You will need python's development package to compile gDesklets.])) AC_SUBST(PYTHON_CFLAGS) -PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GDESKLETS, pygtk-2.0 >= 2.10.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.12.0) +PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GDESKLETS, pygtk-2.0 >= 2.10.0) AC_SUBST(GDESKLETS_CFLAGS) AC_SUBST(GDESKLETS_LIBS)