[Bug 44496] Download manager icon in the notification area is not transparent

[Bernat Tallaferro]

Public bug reported:

The Download Manager icon in the notification area has got a solid grey
background.

That means that when the colour of the panel containing the Download
Manager icon is other than the default GNOME grey (e.g. another solid or
transparent colour), the Download Manager icon background does not match
that of the panel's.

This is just a smal issue but it makes the panel visually unpleasant
when not using the default colour and does not say much about GNOME's
polish. Having a transparent icon background would make it independent
of the panel's colour.

In the last few weeks there have updates to make the backgrounds of
GNOME applets transparent, so I think it makes sense that Download
Manager gets this feature too, which IMHO would not be very difficult to
implement.

These are links to recently fixed bugs regarding this same issue. Some
of them include the patch to make this work:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/38764
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40444
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43332
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40443

The patches submitted seem all to be based in the original one from
GNOME's bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150726

Thanks.

** Affects: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Download manager icon in the notification area is not transparent
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44496