N900 - Missing GTK icons after upgrade to PR1.2

I had encountered this anoying little bug after i upgraded the Maemo firmware to PR1.2. It only happens in a few apps so I didn't immediately notice it. The issue is that a few stock GTK icons used in some apps such as cbrpager, abiword, gnumeric and kmplayer were missing. A broken link icon was shown it their place.

Took me quite a long time to look for the solution and I had almost given up. Today by sheer luck I finally came across the solution posted in the maemo.org forums just 3 days ago.
Here's the Link

In short, here's the solution. In the Terminal:
sudo gainroot
mv /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gtk-* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/

That's it. I'm happy now.

N900 - Applets, Widgets, Plugins and Utilities

My last 2 posts have been about the useful applications and fun games you can expect to find on the Nokia N900. Today I'll be listing some of my favorite little applets/widgets/plugins and utilities.

Status Menu Applets:

• Wifi Switcher - Lets you totally switch off the Wifi chip by unloading the kernel module. It will save some power when you don't have wifi.
  
• Flashlight - Turns on the LED Flash permanently for use as a makeshift flashlight.
  
• Simple Brightness Applet - Quick access to the screen brightness controls.
  
• Wi-Fi Signal Applet - A simple 1-10 number beside the Wifi icon to indicate signal strength.
  

Home Screen Desktop Widgets:

• systeminfowidget - CPU & RAM usage percentage.
  
• Desktop Command Execution Widget - Run arbitrary shell commands and output on the desktop.
  
• Personal Dataplan Monitor - Displays mobile data usage stats.
  
• Personal IP Address - Just displays your IP address.
  

Plug-ins and support add-ons:

• MSN (pecan) protocol plug-in - Support for MSN Chat protocol in Conversations and Contacts. Pecan version works better for me than the standard or pidgin versions.
  
• Extra Decoders Support - Support pack for various media formats. Such as ogg, flv, rmvb, mkv and WebM.
  
• Subtitle Support - Adds subtitle support to the media player.
  

Utilities:

• Extended Call Log - A more verbose call log list.
  
• QCPUFreq - Allows CPU frequency scaling adjustments.
• Shortcutd - Lets you assign shortcuts to the proximity sensor & camera focus key.
  
• tweakr - Enables some small tweaks, such as desktop align to grid & additional profiles.
  
• maenotify - Displays notifications on the lock screen.