Comment 180 for bug 403135

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Justin Cope <email address hidden> wrote:
> Never filed a bug report, hope this is correct.  I've been tracking this
> and not seen this mentioned (that I can remember) so perhaps it will
> shed some light.
>
> I have solid backgrounds on my Firestarter, VLC, and Banshee icons.  I
> have since installed RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04.  Once in use the
> three above tray icons were corrected in appearance - that is, they
> gained a clear background - and all other icons were screwed up.  The
> icons that were fine, like Miro, Network Monitor Applet, Parcellite,
> Dropbox, and so on all gained a dark gray background.
>
> Since this was even uglier than before I blacklisted the notification
> area from using rgba transparency and everything returned to "normal".
>
> I'm no expert, but the before mentioned "alpha transparency issue"
> appears to be simply a difference between Ubuntu's pseudo transparency
> and the "real" transparency of rgba.  I have found no way to make the
> two work together in the notification area, it's one or the other I
> guess, but it's a clear line to the prblem.  Maybe in 10.10, when Ubuntu
> will supposedly have rgba by default it will be fixed?

I'm interested to know more about this. What do you mean by "installed
RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04"? This can probably shed some light
on exactly what is going on, and exactly what needs to be done to fix
this issue.

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Chow Loong Jin