Comment # 7 on bug 1204342 from Larry Rainey

It does not for me.

I reinstalled mate-applets - no change

Here is a sum -r of mate-panel and mate-cpufreq-applet to see if your version
is different.

LLRA:~ # sum -r  /usr/bin/mate-panel 
30779   641 /usr/bin/mate-panel
LLRA:~ # sum -r /usr/libexec/mate-applets/mate-cpufreq-applet
03722    67 /usr/libexec/mate-applets/mate-cpufreq-applet
LLRA:~ # uname -a
Linux LLRA 6.0.3-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 22 07:43:26 UTC 2022
(f00a35f) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
LLRA:~ # cat /etc/SUSE*
openSUSE
VERSION = tumbleweed
LLRA:~ #