Comment 2 for bug 698058

I have created a patch which I believe slightly improves the situation. Instead of directly drawing the text, I used a Label (actually, a slightly modified label from here: http://people.gnome.org/~gianmt/busybox.py). I'm relatively new to development on Launchpad, and I had difficulty finding the right procedure to propose my patch to be merged. So here it is. I hope it's some help.

The patch fixes the problem of transparent background, but the color is still the same.