Comment 1 for bug 344079

I have a similar problem on Gentoo with python 2.6.
I managed to get it working by applying a patch I found from Arch Linux (no-import-overide.patch):
  http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/gdesklets/repos/extra-x86_64/

This patch just comments out certain module import code, so
it may break something else... (but works for me).