gnome-panel needs a nice background image

confirming, although I personally use a whitish transparent colour, it could use some "pimping" :)

this feature exist from ages in Gnome Panel.
Right click on gnome-panel > Properties > Background > Background Image ..then select the right image (that you can do yourself in 3 minutes in Inkscape or Gimp OR you can download a proper image from the net).

Voila !.

I know this, thanks :) But there is no default image in human-theme,
and I think that there should be one

Currently, gnome-panel can't handle pixmap images correctly when user prefers to use the panel vertically, so you'll get a tiled pattern in case you like a vertical panel.
Shouldn't include a default panel background at least until it handles the background pixmap correctly, when switched to vertical view. This shouldn't be so hard though.

Isn't there a gconf option for vertical panels?
/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/background/rotate

This method isn't very good. The panel buttons disappear. The best way is to include a pixmap in the gtkrc for the panel background.

I noticed in the Gnome 2.24 objectives is to include themeing of the panel which I assume becomes part of the gtk engine and gtkrc.

> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:28:26 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 203317] Re: gnome-panel needs a nice background image
>
> this feature exist from ages in Gnome Panel.
> Right click on gnome-panel > Properties > Background > Background Image ..then select the right image (that you can do yourself in 3 minutes in Inkscape or Gimp OR you can download a proper image from the net).
>
> Voila !.
>
> --
> gnome-panel needs a nice background image
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203317
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Artwork Team, which is subscribed to human-theme in ubuntu.

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U right,
mine is a quck & dirty. Generally we need a better solution with some
more options regarding theme applied to WM and gnome-panel - today
situation is more like a very quick solution [ to choose a file than
set as BG for Gnome Panel - it can be a transparent PNG indeed ], we
need something integrated with "Themes Preferences", so the BG
transparency could be set in some kind of individual mode -> shared from
Compiz OR from Metacity - depend on your WM engine.

xl_cheese wrote:
> This method isn't very good. The panel buttons disappear. The best way is to include a pixmap in the gtkrc for the panel background.
>
> I noticed in the Gnome 2.24 objectives is to include themeing of the
> panel which I assume becomes part of the gtk engine and gtkrc.
>
>> From: <email address hidden>
>> To: <email address hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:28:26 +0000
>> Subject: [Bug 203317] Re: gnome-panel needs a nice background image
>>
>> this feature exist from ages in Gnome Panel.
>> Right click on gnome-panel > Properties > Background > Background Image ..then select the right image (that you can do yourself in 3 minutes in Inkscape or Gimp OR you can download a proper image from the net).
>>
>> Voila !.
>>
>> --
>> gnome-panel needs a nice background image
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203317
>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
>> Artwork Team, which is subscribed to human-theme in ubuntu.
>
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