Gnome-Panels transparency isnt realy transparent

[Andi]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Panel Settings:
 - auto-hide
 - Background: color: Black, Transparency ca. 1/3

what hapens:
 - when a window is opened and the mouse moves to the top to "drop down" the panel, the color of the panel is the background (and not the window, which would have been, when it where transparent)

details:
 - Ubuntu-Version
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

 - Package
gnome-panel:
  Installiert: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 3 22:54:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubuntuone-client 0.96.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[nouyang (nouyang)]

Same behaviour on Jaunty 9.04, 2.6.28.11 and 14. (black, with 100% transparency)

[Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005)]

Why is this assigned as Wishlist? I think having fake transparency in a composite window manager is actually a bug, when you can use true transparency.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Setting to triaged since all necessary information is present.

[coldReactive (coldreactive)]

It would be nice if it really was trnasparent, even without a compositing manager.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Sorry about the duplicate, it's pretty hard to find what other people describe it as. I did look.

It shouldn't be on wishlist - it's a bug, either for Compiz or Gnome Panel - I am thinking the latter, because Compiz transparency works flawlessly elsewhere, but perhaps gnome-panel isn't utilizing it properly.

[Dan Quade (danquade)]

It should be noted that the obvious solution is to add RGBA to it, the way this guy did: http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2008/11/16/murrine-needs-a-laptop-status-of-rgba-murrine-projects/

So far it does not work in Karmic.

[aloctavodia (aloctavodia)]

This has nothing to do with adding RGBA or compositing this is a problem of the radiance-ambience theme. Human-theme (for example) has not this problem.

[ubby (kostas-sytske)]

This has nothing to do with the theme.
Just like unimatrix said, to add RGBA is the obvious solution.

[Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005)]

Hey, this bug has been present for over 2 years or more! Why don't we have a solution, like for gnome-terminal??