Description of problem: The connection status icon indicating the traffic on an established connection does not have a transparent background in Gnome panel. Instead the default window background color seems to be used to paint the icon's background. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.3.23-5.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a theme that sets gnome panel background to a color / image different from the theme's default window background color 2. configure a connection in gnome-ppp and make sure to check the "Dock in notification area" option 3. establish the connection Actual results: The connection status icon in the notification area does not have a transparent background instead its background seems to be painted with the default window background color. Expected results: The connection status icon in the notification area has a transparent background. Additional info: I've adapted ekiga-eggtrayicon-update.diff and ekiga-eggtrayicon-transparency.diff patches found at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135327 (which solve similar problem for ekiga on Gentoo) to apply to gnome-ppp - the adated patches are attached. Applying the patches solved the problem for me.
Created attachment 312937 [details] eggtrayicon code update
Created attachment 312938 [details] eggtrayicon transparency patch
I could not help digging into the problem some more and I have found a much more straightforward solution to it: use GTK provided GtkStatusIcon (see: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkStatusIcon.html) in place of the EggTrayIcon. There are two patches attached: gnome-ppp-gtkstatusicon.patch gnome-ppp-remove_eggtrayicon.patch The first one introduces the code changes to use GtkStatusIcon instead of EggTrayIcon. The latter one removes the eggtrayicon sources.
Created attachment 313052 [details] patch to use GtkStatusIcon in place of EggTrayIcon
Created attachment 313053 [details] patch to remove eggtrayicon sources
I'm attaching another patch (depending on the previous ones) - gnome-ppp-allow_close_window.patch - which allows the "connected" window to be closed when the connection status icon is displayed. Formerly the window could not be closed under any conditions.
Created attachment 313054 [details] patch to allow closing of the "connected" window
Created attachment 313081 [details] updated patch to use GtkStatusIcon in place of EggTrayIcon styling clean-ups and one optimization
Created attachment 313082 [details] updated patch to allow closing of the "connected" window
Note that gnome-ppp is orphaned - there is currently no maintainer, and it's actually been removed from the development tree. Because of this, it's unlikely any changes will be applied. Are you willing to maintain it?
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