[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 403135] Re: Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)

roadSurfer jasonirwin73 at googlemail.com
Fri May 14 12:58:51 BST 2010


@stalka - That's a good point, but it doesn't actually work I am afraid.
1. Whilst changing the windows background colour will cause the sys tray icons to update their background, they will still not match the actual theme ("Ambiance" has a gradient in the panels, and you can't match that with a simple colour change).
2. One's windows backgrounds will now be dark unreadable unless you change the text colour, and white text on a dark background may not be what one wants.  So unless your panels happen to match your windows background, one'd still be goosed.  This is why "Cleanlooks" appears to work.  The panels and the window background happen to match, but the problem is not actually fixed.

One could switch to "Radiance" where the problem is less obvious I
guess.

There was a "sort of" similar issue with Skype and menus,
Options/General/Choose Style/"Desktop Settings"/Apply seems to fix that.
I am wondering if there is a sort-of similar switch for Wine?  I've dug
around in gconf, but can't see anything obvious.

@Marcus Carlson - it might mask it I guess (I doubt you would get the
gradients).  How does one access the background setting for panels?  I
don't see it with the Theme customisation GUI which is the only way I
know how to set things like that.

@Tim Kosse - Thanks for the heads-up.  I am only affected by the Wine
issue, but not being a dev I am not sure if Wine is dependent on
wxWidgets.  Nor do I want to risk installing wxWidgets 2.9 in case I
futz my system up!

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Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)
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Bug description:
The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that have a transparent background.

I attach a screenshot.

This bug is noticed when:
a) Themes set a background image in the gtkrc
b) If users set a custom image for the panel from Panel Properties > Background > Background Image

***This bug affects all themes , but has become easier to notice since the default light-themes use a background image.***

Also , see , comment #99 , might be a regression in gnome-panel since Karmic release.







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