Please use an icon for notification area applet that fits well in transparent panels

Bug #42901 reported by Olivier Cortès
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Workrave
Fix Released
Unknown
workrave (Ubuntu)
Opinion
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The workrave applet doesn't seem to use the transparent background of the panel. This doesn't fit well to the eye, and doesn't fit well with others applet which do. I think it should.

Screenshot of the bug :

http://deep-ocean.net/captures/workrave-applet-transparent-panel.png

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report, I forwarded it to the upstream developers: http://issues.workrave.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=547

Changed in workrave:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in workrave:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in workrave:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

 workrave (1.8.4-1ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Merged with Debian, remaining Ubuntu changes:
     - debian/applied-patches/server-file-changes.patch:
       - change applet category and hardcode icon.
     - debian/rules, debian/control:
       - build-depends on intltool and do translation magic.
   * debian/control:
     - changed Maintainer field.
   * debian/applied-patches/update-POTFILES.in:
     - updated po/POTFILES.in to make intltool-update happy again.
 .
 workrave (1.8.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     - KDE applet space fixed (closes: #289382)
     - historystats reader fixed (closes: #390495)
   * Add dependency on libxtst-dev to enable XRecord extension (closes: #388669)

Changed in workrave:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen) wrote :

I still have the problem on gutsy, so I'm reopening the bug.

Changed in workrave:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen) wrote :
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in workrave:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) wrote :

I believe that this is fixed

$ apt-cache policy workrave gnome-about
workrave:
  Installed: 1.8.5-6
  Candidate: 1.8.5-6
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.5-6 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gnome-about:
  Installed: 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Changed in workrave:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Jim (ysdd-launchpad) wrote :

Background and theme of workrave should blend in with the rest of the applets

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Jim (ysdd-launchpad) wrote :

I use 10.10 updated and the applet does not blend in

Changed in workrave (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Opinion
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