Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 170987
Incomplete Panel Transparency
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:15 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Panel does a great job with transparency, but when are we going to get transparent task names in the task bar, with options for changing the font color? Also, the applet handles should be able to set to become partially visible on mouseover (ie not a block of grey, but some compromise). Also, the icons in the system tray should match color / transparency of the rest of the panel. These things are sore thumbs in what would otherwise be a gorgeous setup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at bottom of screen. 2. 3. Actual Results: It wasn't entirely gorgeous. Expected Results: It was amazingly gorgeous. Additional info: Thanks!
Created attachment 120766 [details] Screenshot of transparent panel Also, several applets are not transparency-friendly. In the attached screenshot, the volume and battery applets look very good. However, the show desktop applet is not as attractive. The show desktop applet is completely opaque.
Can the owner of this bug set its Version to devel? This seems to be applicable to newer versions.
In particular, the Nofification area (version 2.14.0) and left/right panel boundaries do not properly support transparency.
Created attachment 127789 [details] Illustration of incomplete transparency This picture illustrates the incomplete transparency of the notification area and panel edges. The notification area has a box around it to show where it is.
Hi guys, The tasklist supports transparency now. Closing... The notification area icons need to be fixed on an app by app basis (either switch to GtkStatusIcon from libegg, or patch their libegg to support transparency). feel free to file individual bug reports as you run across problem apps.