Sorry, you’ll need to be more explicit with me. I don’t know what exactly I should do after reading that bug report.
In the bug report people said that with Ubuntu they used aptitude to install a package called “indicator-applet”, and that fixed their problem. But, I’m running openSUSE, and aptitude isn’t loaded. Plus, none of the usual openSUSE repositories has a package called indicator-applet.
May be an error occured during fresh installation,I advise you to Repair the installation when such unexpected problems do occur.Put in your Operating System DVD and after some steps when installing you will be asked To install,Upgrade, or Repair, choose repair.
If that is unapplicable, may your is not powerfull enough to handle gnome, try KDE is also powerfull.