OK, I have just uninstalled Launcher, redownloaded, and reinstalled, and I still get the same effect.

No button on statusbar
Although it's present in control panel, panels it is not selectable
/usr/bin/launcher hangs at "recreate buffer pixmap"

We need some feedback when an icon is pressed. Doesn't have to be a banner. Some apps that can't be launched:
Dali Clock
Transmission
mYTube
E-mail
Search
Application manager
Leafpad
FreeMap-IL
Tuner
Galculator

Ok I've uploaded another package. This package fixed the problem of apps not loading.

Gazza_d/tuliobaar please try this package.

Tso, i've tested the launcher for navigator package this time Please follow my instruction on how to replace the default menu with this on the first post.

Mitrandir, I launched the application using dbus autostart mechanism for those apps that give their service name on the desktop file. Otherwise i used g_spawn_async to run it. On my testing the application doesn't die even after I killed the launcher processed. By the way, this is how personal menu launch application as well.

Yey - It works again. Great stuff Angun.

Updated to 0.1.2 on N800 and saw no change so I rebooted, and it doesn't open.
here is the xterm output :
~ $ launcher
Reading application menu
launcher[1697]: GLIB INFO default - Application dtor
Segmentation fault

will test, tho reading it i worry about any attempt at a uninstall as it may risk leaving the user without a way to launch programs at all.

also, this do not explain how the navigator-menu got unchecked in the panels dialog earlier.

ugh, seems the earlier launcher-navigator have left me with a severely messed up navigator panel, as even with the .desktop renamed i am left with only 2 usable applets rather then 3. There seems to be a ghost applet floating around without icon or menu of any kind, tho it highlights if tapped.

oh, and i am seeing the same segmentation fault as giladmttw.

hrmf, i sure do wonder where maemo is hiding the config files for the panels. Probably in some obvious way if one is familiar with legacy gnome of any kind. Never mind, found it in /home/user/.osso/hildon-desktop/tasknavigator.conf.

hehe, the whole thing is kinda funny. The mandatory entry seems to nearly nothing. Simply changing it to false do not change ones ability to change the checkbox in panels. Commenting it out makes the checkbox changeable, but said checkbox's status seems to be quietly ignored (as it can be mandatory, unchecked and still the mandatory status takes precedence, locking the checkbox from being changed while still demanding that 3 checkboxes gets checked before panels will allow a ok). And even when the applications menu is unchecked, nothing can take up its spot on the navigator panel, resulting in a kind of ghost applet with no real effect.

given all this i feel tempted to poke at replacing app-switcher and switcher-menu with launcher and something that can launch telescope.

New version does nothing . It seemed to work once, but after reboot it stopped working. Uninstalling leaves me nothing, and original looses the option to tick it. Seems to be same problem Gilad has.
xterm says
Reading application menu
launcher[2862]: GLIB INFO default - Application dtor
Segmentation fault

Are the people who are having issues all on N800's?

I'd LOVE to see a stable release of this

probably both n800 and n810, but trying to use launcher-navigator.

on the loss of checkbox ability, try editing /home/user/.osso/hildon-desktop/tasknavigator.conf.

there look for a application-menu line. its probably set to false. change it to true.

@ silvermountian: I'm on an n810

@tso: What do I open/edit tasknavigator.conf with?

Though deselcting application launcher before uninstalling new launcher, I can now select old app launcher. But now it does nothing either :/. Anyone know how I can get the old one back? Or I can wait for new launcher version. Personal launcher is working in the interim.