Panel color not smooth when panel size is increased

[Malte]

When changing the panel size bigger than default, there is a cut in the color change.
Especially on vertical panels this looks really bad.

[François Vogelweith (f-bisigi)]

Hi,

To fix this bug, you have to parameter the theme.
For exemple, with showtime... Open the following file:
/usr/share/themes/showtime/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
And replace the line 23 (depending on the size of your panel)

include "panel.rc"

by

include "panel28.rc"

or
include "panel32.rc"
or
include "panel40.rc"
or
include "panel48.rc"
or
include "panel-vertical.rc"

[Malte (maltejoos)]

Thanks, this fixed the problem. Unfortunately there isn't a file for 50px panels (at this size the window list always displays all open windows in two rows).
So there is still a small white line at the bottom (using panel48.rc). But anyway, looks much better now, thanks again.

[François Vogelweith (f-bisigi)]

to have a 50pxl, you can use the panel48.rc.
Then resize the following image:
/us/share/themes/showtime/gtk-2.0/Panels/panel-bg48.png

[Malte (maltejoos)]

Thanks again, now it is completely solved.

I attached the scaled image for panels with a size of 50px. Just replace /us/share/themes/showtime/gtk-2.0/Panels/panel-bg48.png
 with this file (don't forget to rename it to ...48.png), and edit /usr/share/themes/showtime/gtk-2.0/gtkrc like described by François Vogelweith.