GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166758
Applet transparency does not work with pixmap themes
Last modified: 2005-02-10 21:56:51 UTC
Please describe the problem: When pixmap gtk themes such as Rpanther2 or Amiga-BlueTabs-Brushed are used applets ignore panel transparency and use widget background from theme settings Steps to reproduce: 1. Turn panel background to solid color 2. switch opacity to transparent level - enjoy cool transparent applets 3. Using theme selector choose Rpanther2, Amiga-BlueTabs-Brushed , BBX-Mercury (all themes taken from www.gnome-look.org) - and maybe other themes on pixmap engines and watch applet transparency gone. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
I can reproduce that bug, but only with specific applets : the panel menu bar, the window selector applet, etc. So my guess is that transparency handling in those specific applets is buggy somehow. These applets leave in libwnck and gnome-panel, so I'm reassigning to gnome-panel to attract Vincent's attention :-) The transparency is fine for me with other applets (eg the weather applet, the netstatus applet, the clock applet etc)... Could you confirm ?
for me clock applet worked ugly same way, keyboard switcher was doing better. Still Amiga theme was screwing them all :( So I guess it is also depends on theme used.
Might just be a gtk engine bug then.
I think this is a duplicate...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165608 ***