Transparent in a panel applet

[Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin gmail com>]

Hi,

How can one write pacified text in an applet that's on the gnome panel?
Pango only allows RGB colors, and while searching I didn't find too much
information on this.

One attempted solution was to use cairo to draw the text
(code<http://pastie.org/362502>),
however that does not work when the panel is transparent or with an image.

Does anyone know if this is possible to do?