[Bug 36670] ignore disabling of key //desktop/gnome/background/draw_background ?

[Benoît Rouits]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36670

Affects: meta-gnome2 gnome-desktop-environment (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
I use applications that draw themselves on thr X root window, so i
disable the "draw_background" key for gnome with gconf-editor. However,
gnome *still continues to draw the background* and hides the window of
the application drawing to the root of the screen. When disabling the
draw_background, gnome must not draw anything (image or bgcolor) on the
root window. I believe this worked for standard gnome from gnome.org
when i used it (at least for a previous version) so i think it is an
ubunut bug.

version: gnome 2.12.1 ubuntu breezy + official dapper backports