You say you purged Pulseaudio - but the new applet doesn't work without Pulseaudio anyway.
Perhaps you could report this upstream to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ , as you're experiencing the issue.
Thanks
You say you purged Pulseaudio - but the new applet doesn't work without Pulseaudio anyway.
Perhaps you could report this upstream to http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ , as you're experiencing the issue.
Thanks