Comment 10 for bug 534061

Okay, great.. I think the eye-dropper color selector widget from your particular installed version is returning a color object that does not return the color string unless you call 'to_string()', which I thought it was already doing, not sure why I am not (as it more concise). I have modified the in-line script to reflect this change; If you would be kind enough to test it and report back, I will fix the problem in the applet and then nobody else will run into this.

cd /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/bandwidth-monitor/

python -c """import gtk

win = gtk.Window()
win.set_title('Colour Parse Test - bug 534061')
prefs_box = gtk.VBox()
win.add(prefs_box)
prefs_ui = gtk.Builder()
prefs_ui.add_from_file('bandwidth-monitor.ui')
prefs_ui.get_object('dialog-notebook').reparent(prefs_box)
bgColorbutton = prefs_ui.get_object('bgColorbutton')
def bgColorbutton_color_set_cb(widget):
    color = widget.get_color()
    alpha = float('%2.1f' % (widget.get_alpha() / 65535.0))
    print '---------'
    print 'color object:', color.to_string()
    print 'type:', type(color)
    print 'alpha:', alpha
    print '---------'
    return
bgColorbutton.connect('color-set', bgColorbutton_color_set_cb)
def close(*args):
    print 'Exiting normally'
    exit()
prefs_ui.get_object('dialog-notebook').connect('destroy', close)
win.show_all()
gtk.main()
"""

Thanks,
Kyle