draw applet without theme

["Karl H. Beckers" <karl h beckers gmx net>]

Hi folks,

thanks for Network Manager ... very cool for my laptop esp. with vpnc
support I've finally dumped the Cisco client.


Some minor thing I'd like to remove for myself:
The applet draws a menubar with a menuitem in it. With the theme I'm
using menubars have a sublte gradient on the lower end. Since the applet
appears in the notification area, however, this looks awkward.

I'd be thankful for a hint as to what functions I need to look for to
make the menubar/menuitem draw with a null theme ... or perhaps there's
a better way of forcing a transparent background like most other
notifications (which admittedly don't draw left click menus).

TIA,

Karl.