[maemo-developers] How to keep hildon-plugin-manager from loading plugins before the package is installed completely?

[From: pHilipp Zabel]

Hi,

I tried to find the cause for
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10798 (installation of
status-area-applet-tor crashes hildon-status-menu), so I ran
hildon-status-menu from the terminal before installing the Tor Status
Area Applet from h-a-m:

# /usr/sbin/dsmetool -k /usr/bin/hildon-status-menu
# DEBUG_OUTPUT=1 /usr/bin/hildon-status-menu
[...]
atus-menu[27821]: GLIB DEBUG default - plugin-added:
/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/status-area-applet-tor.desktop
atus-menu[27821]: GLIB DEBUG default - load_plugin_idle. Try to load
plugin_id: status-area-applet-tor.desktop
atus-menu[27821]: GLIB ERROR ** default -
status-area-applet-tor.vala:118: Icon 'statusarea_tor_disabled' not
present in theme
aborting...

So during installation, the plugin is loaded but causes SIGABRT
because it can't find a theme icon that is part of the package:

# dpkg -L status-area-applet-tor | grep "\(disabled\|\.desktop\)"
/opt/maemo/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/statusarea_tor_disabled.png
/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/status-area-applet-tor.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/statusarea_tor_disabled.png

My assessment of the situation is that hildon-status-menu loads the
plugin as soon as status-area-applet-tor.desktop is unpacked. It then
races against the unpacking process and wins. It tries to load the
icon before the maemo-optified link
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/statusarea_tor_disabled.png is
created.
Is this what happens? What should I do about it - I guess I can't stop
h-s-m from prematurely loading the plugin?

best regards
Philipp