Ubuntu
gnome-python-extras package

missing transparency in tray icons

Bug #40444 reported by Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen on 2006-04-20

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-python-extras (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Peter Grundström

Bug Description

I'm using transparent panels, because that looks nice. Some icons, like the volume in systray has a transparent background. I think this package should have that too.

- Ketil

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2006-05-08: gmail-notify's icon in the notification area has got a solid grey background.

I was just about to report this, again ;)

gmail-notify's icon in the notification area has got a solid grey background.

That means that when the colour of the panel containing the gmail-notify icon is other than the default GNOME grey (e.g. another solid or transparent colour), the gmail-notify icon background does not match that of the panel's.

This is just a smal issue but it makes the panel visually unpleasant when not using the default colour and does not say much about GNOME's polish. Having a transparent icon background would make it independent of the panel's colour.

In the last few weeks there have updates to make the backgrounds of GNOME applets transparent, so I think it makes sense that gmail-notify gets this feature too, which IMHO would not be very difficult to implement.

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Peter Grundström (petgru) wrote on 2006-05-08: Re: gmail-notify missing transparent tray icons

gmail-notify is written in python and uses the bindings for egg tray icon in gnome-python-extras. The real bug is in this package and affect all python programs that uses this code.