I don't know. You might be right. I wouldn't expect that area to be left sort of blank but filled with a very light shade of some color that would fit in with the theme. And when I mentioned about this a themer suggested to me that it might be bug caused by that patch, but then implemented a bgcolor by inserting a couple of lines to the relevant css file (although they said some bgcolor was displayed in other distros).
I don't know. You might be right. I wouldn't expect that area to be left sort of blank but filled with a very light shade of some color that would fit in with the theme. And when I mentioned about this a themer suggested to me that it might be bug caused by that patch, but then implemented a bgcolor by inserting a couple of lines to the relevant css file (although they said some bgcolor was displayed in other distros).