since your rooting around in the panel

[Mr Wislr]

i think a nice option would be the ability to change the background
colors on the resource monitor panel plugin, i think it would be used
more often if you could make it match your panel or at least come
close, the current jet black is at times too black for the theme/colors
you might be using... if you could make it virtually disappear in the
panel the moving graphs would look cool and slick

--Ronnie