diff --git a/x11/gnome/panel/Makefile b/x11/gnome/panel/Makefile
index 1a9c6e7297f..574648fb45f 100644
--- a/x11/gnome/panel/Makefile
+++ b/x11/gnome/panel/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.42 2008/11/26 11:58:40 ajacoutot Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.43 2008/11/29 16:14:38 ajacoutot Exp $
 
 COMMENT=		GNOME panel
 
 GNOME_PROJECT=		gnome-panel
 GNOME_VERSION=		2.24.2
-PKGNAME=		${DISTNAME}p0
+PKGNAME=		${DISTNAME}p1
 SHARED_LIBS=	panel-applet-2       2.24      # .2.26
 CATEGORIES=		x11
 
diff --git a/x11/gnome/panel/patches/patch-gnome-panel_menu_c b/x11/gnome/panel/patches/patch-gnome-panel_menu_c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e1fab3d78f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11/gnome/panel/patches/patch-gnome-panel_menu_c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Workaround to install desktop launchers in 644 mode whatever the
+original file mode from the system applications directory is.
+
+$OpenBSD: patch-gnome-panel_menu_c,v 1.1 2008/11/29 16:14:38 ajacoutot Exp $
+--- gnome-panel/menu.c.orig	Tue Nov 25 14:02:15 2008
++++ gnome-panel/menu.c	Sat Nov 29 17:00:05 2008
+@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
+ 
+ #include <string.h>
+ 
++#include <glib.h>
++#include <glib/gstdio.h>
++
+ #include <glib/gi18n.h>
+ #include <gio/gio.h>
+ #include <gdk/gdkkeysyms.h>
+@@ -725,6 +728,16 @@ add_app_to_desktop (GtkWidget      *item,
+ 	error = NULL;
+ 	g_file_copy (source, target, G_FILE_COPY_NONE,
+ 		     NULL, NULL, NULL, &error);
++
++	/*
++	  This should probably use G_FILE_COPY_TARGET_DEFAULT_PERMS
++	  in previous g_file_copy when glib has it in a stable release.
++	*/
++	char *target_path;
++	target_path = g_file_get_path (target);
++	if (g_chmod(target_path, 0644) != 0)
++		g_warning ("Cannot give 644 chmod permissions to :%s", target_path);
++	g_free (target_path);
+ 
+ 	g_object_unref (source);
+ 	g_object_unref (target);