Ubuntu
checkgmail package

  1. Bug #236046
  2. Comment #52

Comment 52 for bug 236046

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Sandro Tosi (morph-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 236046] Re: checkgmail tray background colour cannot be changed

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 19:24, Corona <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry, I have no experience whatsoever with sending patches upstream, I was just following directions. I don't want to pester anyone, and I don't have time to replicate this bug on various distros.
> Looking at the code I'm quite sure that setting a custom bg color will be disabled on any system running Gnome, which is especially annoying if you use a custom background color for your panel.
>
> As I mentioned above I notified the developer of checkgmail, he is aware
> of the issue but he won't change the current behaviour because that
> would break transparency with the default Ubuntu settings (Ambiance
> theme without a custom background or transparency for the panel). He
> told me that he might include the fix as a commandline option.

That said, I hope you'll understand I'm not going to apply it in Debian.

Regards,
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