cannot change background color on parts of panel

Thanks for the report, which theme are you using? Could you try with Simple or Clearlooks? seems to be a theme issue.

I'm getting this as well - since this morning's updates. Ugly opaque white bits on the panels if I choose Solid-Colour/Semi transparent, or Background Image.

Yes, the problem goes away with Human-Clearlooks and Clearlooks Themes.

Thanks.

I did a fresh install from the beta distribution CD and the problem does not manifest even though I'm using the same /home partition as before.

Go figure.

I got the same problem on three different machines. All three are normally using the "Human" theme. The problem occurred on 27th after I have installed the daily updates.
Switching to the "Human-Clearlooks" theme solved the problem for me either. Please fix the "Human" theme. It's much better.

Seems to definitely be a Human theme issue, since Human-clearlooks and others look fine. I also tried other themes using the murrine engine (murrine dark red, murrine theme pack) and those work as expected.

the issue is theme specific

This is fixed with human-theme 0.28.8

Ubuntu has had this problem as long as I've been using it - since 5.04! It is *NOT* specific to any single theme. I can see why it is low priority - it doesn't stop anything important from working - but it is very annoying.

The panel looks fine in the screenshots taken by the maintainers of the the various themes. Obviously it is not their fault that the gnome panel in ubuntu can't follow instructions.

I'm having similar issues, and I dunno how to fix it (the above suggestions aren't working). I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 as well. It's nothing to do with the desktop theme.

My problem is a bit quirkier... I had some apps open the other night ("ssh -X" windows) that overlapped the Gnome panel. I had to shut down the computer quickly to leave (just powered down) and now the window headers have become the new background for my Gnome panel. I dunno how that even happened. Changing themes just keeps 'em there. It doesn't hinder anything, but it looks atrocious and it's difficult to see many of the icons/etc up there now. How do I get my original panel back?

Ugh, grr, nevermind. I found it. It wasn't a bug... just the naivety of a relatively new Gnome user. Scratch my question.
- Mike

Please forward this upstream if it is still an issue for you with Ubuntu 9.10. For instructions on how to do that, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. Thanks.

In Ubuntu 10.04 Beta i386 (20100318) I have this problem with Ambiance theme.

The transparent background of all applets does not work in Ubuntu 10.04 i386.
I have this problem with radiance, new-wave, hanso, impression, night impression, ambiance, sorbet and wasp-murrine
Moreover, the background color of the themes is not supporting to place the panel in vertical

gnome-panel: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu: 10.04 LTS

This is a minor but very annoying problem. Still occurs in Lucid.

The theme is designed to use a gradient image in the panel.

Removing it is the only option to fix this bug , hence setting it to wishlist.
The proper fix would have to be in gnome-panel though.

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream.
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.
Thanks in advance!

Not sure whether it's about -panel or -applets, as suggested in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364427

Per Gnome bug comment, adding indicator-applet as affected because it is up to each applet to apply the transparency option.

fd

I think I've found a solution for this issue.

You can read it here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/fix-transparent-vertical-and-large.html

Regards!

This is the same as what was mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/538853/comments/3 - changing the theme. It's only a workaround...

Here is a script to fix all your themes at once

Usage - Run the script with root to patch root themes or normaly for user installed themes

Run <sudo> python -u theme_bg_patcher.py

http://hotfile.com/dl/45406223/47fda9d/theme_bg_patcher.py.html

as indicators are menus so does it depend on gtk/theme to support ARGB?

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.