using a gnome-2.4 build from 11 Nov 2003.

-launch gnopernicus with speech enabled.
-add a drawer to the bottom panel
-go to this drawer's properties
-select 'background tab' and then 'solid color'
-action the 'color' button to bring up 'pick a color' window
-highlight a color in the palette
-the feedback is:

"
right click this palette entry to make it the current color...", followed
by "UNKNOWN"

There is no feedback associated with which color is currently highlighted,
and therefore which is about to be selected.