You see those dashed-line in area of the Default screenshot? That's one of the things gnomine does to differentiate between cleared and uncleared in the case of really bad themes.
For what it's worth, we've got http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112571 open upstream. -- uncleared mine tiles same color as cleared tiles https://launchpad.net/bugs/48371 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
