In the section called Compiling the applet, you launched your applet manually from the command line. If you would like your applet to be available for other users on your system, accessible from the Add applet menu, you'll also have to provide two information files: /etc/CORBA/servers/my_applet.gnorba and /usr/share/applets/Category/my_applet.desktop. These are pretty straightforward, two examples will (hopefully) be sufficient.
Example 6. The .gnorba file
[my_applet]
type=exe
repo_id=IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
description=Example panel applet
location_info=my_applet
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Example 7. The .desktop file
[Desktop Entry]
Name=My very own applet
Name[hu]=Az én saját kisalkalmazásom
Comment=An example applet
Comment[hu]=Egy példa-kisalkalmazás
Exec=my_applet --activate-goad-server=my_applet
Icon=my_icon.xpm
Terminal=0
Type=Application
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Note: Be sure that the app_id passed to applet_widget_init is the same as the identifier used in the Exec line (see the section called Changes from an average GTK application)
You can include a number of Name and Comment lines in the .desktop file, for different languages and locales.