gadgets crashes at restart

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Trying to run Google gadgets it fails to load and crashes 
The gadget was running smoothly till i updated Gnome to 2.26 then It did 
not start at all. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

this is what I type to see the problem
  $ ggl-gtk 
and the bellow is the output of the program.. 

Not a regular file: /
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "getDevices" with 
signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist

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org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetProperty" with 
signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" doesn't exist

(ggl-gtk:7187): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: 
assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
The program 'ggl-gtk' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 447 error_code 5 request_code 19 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
My linux distribution is openSuse 11.1 running a gnome desktop (2.24 ) was 
working fine then when updated to gnome (2.26) problem appeared. 

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by melmese...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2010 at 11:42

sivarajankumar / google-gadgets-for-linux

gadgets crashes at restart #356