Comment 8 for bug 549552

> The issue I have is trying to work out where to take the configuration from (eg, if the user selects transparent, should the transparency be set to the value of the slider, or the value in the theme?)

My intuition would be "from the slider", and the default position of the slider (i. e. if gconf doesn't have a custom value) should be the transparency of the theme. This would follow the usual schema of "user gconf trumps system/theme defaults".

However, if this is too fragile, I'm not totally avert to an "Use colors from system theme" like checkbox for the background settings, I just wanted to explore all options.