Comment 12 for bug 1043443

I won't get into the border-width discussion now, but yes, that is the intended workaround.

The compositor is not switched off by default, but yes, we had a panel-background in our drawer but too many things on our plate in the last minute to get it fixed. Maybe we'll try to push it with a UI Freeze exception, but I guess not.

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