clock doesn't deal well with transparent panel

[Shaya Potter]

if you make the panel transparent, the clock becomes not viewable (if the
background is dark). though if one mouses over it it goes opaque. this is a
general problem w/ applet text.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160944: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160944

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I'll talk with an upstream about this but probably a WONTFIX. You have several
options here:
- don't set the panel to 100% transparent
- don't put the clock in a dark area
- choose a background adapted to your panel config

Not sure of what could be done on the panel side ...

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

being able to modify the font color?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

hum, perhaps an option to change the font color for the whole panel could work yes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's a general panel issue. I've opened a bug upstream about it:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160944

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 23905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

Perhaps the same sort of text that is used for icons on the desktop used for the clock and text in gnome-panel?

[Chris Rose (chris-vault5)]

There is a work around in the upstream bug report. You can put the following into your gtkrc to change the text colour on the clock:

style "panel-clock"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}

Related is bug 88263.

[Leon Vitanos (leon-mellori)]

It also affects me... The same thing on 3 different computers with Ubuntu 10.10... And it is very ugly :/

The weird is that the clock applet and the indicator applet are from default at the panel... And they do not become transparent..