Comment 5 for bug 284975

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Adam Del Vecchio (tux.ice) wrote : Re: [Bug 284975] Re: [Intrepid]When switch theme, the image of Gnome Panel not change.

Ok, i understood the problem differently.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Dylan McCall <email address hidden>wrote:

> The issue at hand, as I understand it, is that Ubuntu sets a background
> image for the panel /outside/ of the theme. If you take a look at Panel
> Properties, you'll notice that the background tab has (instead of "None. Use
> system theme"), an arbitrary background image set by default.
> This will cause confusion for users and issues with, for example, low
> contrast themes.
>
> I believe this is a hack to fix a bizarre issue where some applets seem to
> cope fine with drawing themselves on top of a user-specified image
> background but fail miserably with all sorts of awful transparency problems
> when they are drawn on even that same background as part of the theme.
> However, the fix is problematic for the reasons outlined here...
> Personally, I still think it's worthwhile just for the sake of having a
> nice looking panel, but perhaps a few little hacks will solve it completely.
> (For now).
>
> Deepest apologies if I have managed to double post this.
>
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> [Intrepid]When switch theme, the image of Gnome Panel not change.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284975
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