Puplet doesn't work

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

When I start puplet, which I do from the shell ("$ puplet") nothing
happens, except that a blank space appears in the system tray.  Running
as root and using KDE the same thing happens.  Under gnome nothing
happens at all, except that ps shows puplet as running -- I'm not
familiar with gnome so there may be other problems here.

Is this a proper way to start puplet?  If not, what is?  Does anyone
else have similar problems?

Thanks - jon