Comment 11 for bug 828392

It seems that this bug is becoming sort of a meta-bug for several issues in different packages.

Bug 885691 (which was marked a duplicate of this) specifically addressed the themed background gradient not drawn correctly. A patch to gnome-panel was submitted for that bug and the upstream bug, gnome-bugs 663397, on remote watch here.

The original reporter of this bug seems to refer primarily to the gradient background issue as being the impetus for this report. There are certainly other bugs that impact the visual quality of light-themes with gnome-panel 3. I would be happy to cross-ref those here if that's helpful.