Re: draw applet without theme

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:34 +0100, Karl H. Beckers wrote:

> 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).

What we should ideally do is not draw the tray icon using a menu bar,
whatsoever.

Some patches have been floated on the list to do this.

	Robert Love