Comment 15 for bug 156697

You're welcome,

Like you say it's not the cleanest and could be rewritten. At this point with 0.2 I think it's better to minimize the restructuring of logic if possible and just fix the problems. But I may rewrite it at some point, if someone else does not, just because I it is ugly. But I would suggest on any rewrite that the idea of a copy being made of the pixbuf will help keep errant applets from causing issues.

I don't know what you will experience in your case but this patch has seemingly eliminated the last of the corruption issues and more importantly the mysterious, silent, applet crashes (at least with the ones I use)