background defaults to white if wallpaper is not used

[Rick Gatewood]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-netbook-remix

I have not seen any reference to this yet, so I thought I would report. I have been testing the Karmic Netbook Remix in VirtualBox and trying out the configuration that I currently use with Jaunty NBR.

I have noticed that when the background is changed to a solid color instead of an image file, the background changes to white instead of the color shade selected in the Appearance/Background tool. In Jaunty, the background can be set to a solid color with no problems.

The text is still a legible white on gray, but the background is white.

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Confirmed - I accidently removed the wallpaper and saw this effect as well, even though the background color was set to a color other than white.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

We should have a watch on the current colour from gconf (/desktop/gnome/background/blah), and keep the ClutterStage's colour updated.

What we won't support is the fades, but I'm okay for with that for this release...at least we won't have a white background an illegible text (unless the color is white, of course :)

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Despite my best efforts this one has me stumped thus far. I just checked, and we are already monitoring these things... In fact everything appears to be well in order. For the life of me I cannot figure out why it is rendering white. I have checked that when we set the stage color it indeed is setting it to a color and not white. I got nothing... yet...

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Figured it out. clutter_stage_get_default does not actually return our parent stage (maybe because we are using gtk embed). Also clutter_color_from_string does not work on rrrrggggbbbb strings, so we use gdk color parsing if the string matches that signature. Branch with fix is linked.

[Rick Gatewood (george-gatewood)]

Many Thanks! The fix came through on today's update and it looks beautiful.

--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Neil J. Patel <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Neil J. Patel <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 419538] Re: background defaults to white if wallpaper is not used
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 1:17 PM

** Changed in: netbook-remix-launcher
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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background defaults to white if wallpaper is not used
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