NB: I logged this bug against gnome-panel because that's where it's going to be seen, but it's actually a bug in GTK -- the upstream bug is against GTK.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #672858 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672858 ** Also affects: gnome-panel via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672858 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966697 Title: Transparent panel has themed widgets Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Unknown Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: GTK+ 3.4 has introduced a bug with transparent panels. Specifically, upstream gtk+ commit 7603e6e4 breaks setting the "background-image" style property to a cairo pattern. This is the method that gnome- panel uses to simulate transparent backgrounds. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/966697/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp