My crashes are pretty rare. But recovering was a challenge, luckily I had Tear open and I could click on an install file to bring up App Manager. From there, I installed Personal Launcher.

Anyway: Advanced Backlight Control, Batter, Connection, Presence, Location, Alarm, PC connection, Software update notifier, Vagalume Last.fm Client, Graph Plugin and Applications are my checked status bar items.

Graph Plugin is the cpu/memory graph.

It wasn't obvious to me that I had to have Telescope installed the first time I installed this theme, that was fun. Personal Launcher would be another I would recommend.

Frank