Gnome Network Monitor panel applet doesn't have properly transparent background

[Hezekiah Carty]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

The Network Monitor Gnome panel applet (setup by default on a new Feisty Herd 2 install) does not have a properly transparent background.

I will attach a screenshot to illustrate. I remember seeing many of these bugs in the past for other applets, so hopefully this one can be fixed quickly and easily as well.

[Hezekiah Carty (hez)]

Here is a screenshot demonstrating the problem. The applet can be seen at the top of the image.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Confirmed. Somebody of the team should forward this upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still have the bug? Works correctly on my Ubuntu 7.04 desktop

[tombraun (tombraun)]

It is not only the network monitor applet, and it is definitely also a problem in 7.04.

I recently did a fresh install of Feisty, and suddenly some number of applets did not
have a properly transparent background anymore (they had it with Edgy).

Examples, the 'Character Palette' applet, but also the launcher for the Lifera stream reader.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you open bugs on those components then? Does it still happen with the network monitor, it's not on your screenshot

[Petar Vasić (p-vasic)]

One user on our LoCo forum is reporting similar problems with network monitor, as well as with other icons[1], could this be a panel bug?

[1] http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotaj9.png

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

there's also an upstream bug about this http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404936

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Still an issue in Gutsy?

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

This is definitely fixed in Hardy.

[Emilio (turl)]

Still having the problem in Intrepid, here's a screenshot. I'm using ubuntustudio theme & icons from APT: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7885/pantallazohi6.png

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I'll test in Intrepid soon... can anyone else confirm it's fixed in Hardy? Could this be hardware or theme specific?

[Doug Neal (dougn)]

Confirmed in Intrepid here.

Particularly noticeable in KDE as the icon's background is very light and the panel is very dark (by default).

[botticchio (botticchio-gmail)]

Confirmed in Intrepid. I attach a screenshot.

gnome-netstatus-applet 2.12.2-0ubuntu1

In addition, in the screenshot you can see that, in the applet's Properties panel, the icon to the right of "Name" and "Status" fields has no transparent background.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

do you get this with another icon theme but the ubuntu one?

[botticchio (botticchio-gmail)]

I tried different icon sets and the problem remains the same. In particular, I tried with the following icon sets (the ones shipped by default): Crux; Crystal SVG; GNOME; High Contrast Inverse; Mist; Tangerine.
Even with some icon sets taken from gnome-looks (i.e. Bamboo-Zen, Dropline NOU! and Oxygen-refit 2) the problem remains.

In every case, the icon's background color is not transparent, as supposed to be.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in jaunty?

[botticchio (botticchio-gmail)]

This is still an issue in Jaunty.
I tried with the same icon sets of my previous post (2008-12-03) and I obtained the same result: the background is not transparent.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Upstream report was closed, do you get that issue with the human icon theme or with the gnome one? upstream is asking if this is reproducible with the default icon theme from gnome, may you try to reproduce it with that one? would be nice to test with another couple of icons themes as well, thanks.

[botticchio (botticchio-gmail)]

With my Debian installation (testing version, fully upgraded) the issue is not present. I tried many themes/icons combinations and the applet background is transparent.

In Jaunty I noticed that only two of my themes presents this issue: DarkRoom and Dust. With both themes I tried with different icons sets (Crystal SVG, GNOME, High Contrast Inverse, Simple, Tangerine; from gnome-looks: Bamboo-Zen, Dropline NOU! and Oxygen-refit 2).

I also noticed that the applet background is changed according to the Windows Background set under the Colors tab in the them customization window. Maybe the problem is that the two themes do not take into account the particular windows background color.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the clarification.

[Aliaksandr Dzeshchanka (lazy)]

Still this issue in 10.04

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing, won't be fixed.