Comment 3 for bug 112810

I also observed the following behaviour, which is probably related to this bug, so I'll just assume this and add a comment here instead of filing a separate bug report:

On gnome-appearance-properties, changes in the background colour of the desktop's background picture seem to be ignored. The colour can be changed in the dialog, but when the session is started, only the "Ubuntu brown" colour is shown before loading the background picture, regardless of the previously chosen colour.