GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 122509
Make handles transparent on transparent panels
Last modified: 2005-06-06 20:40:19 UTC
If the panel is transparent the panel handles should be aswell. In 2.2 you could have a fully transparent panel but you can not in 2.4 which is a drawback.
Second this. And third and fourth it and fifth. (i've had that many people I know who use Gnome who mentioned this as being pretty horrible)
Agreed, however I'm hoping with the impending release of xorg with composite there can finally be true transparent panel backgrounds.
Now that applets and menus work with transparent panels, these handles (or hid buttons when enabled) are the last ugly pieces, please fix them :)
Patch in #306441 is nearly doing this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306441 ***