Take the 2-minute tour ×  The Google Desktop icon in the system
tray in Unity looks ugly:  enter image description here  Any way
around this?  share|improve this question By the way if anyone
wants to re-tag this question as "google-desktop" feel free. (I
can't create tags yet) –  Trufa Mar 26 '11 at 20:33  1 Answer 1
up vote 6 down vote accepted  I had this issue too, but fpoehler
( http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1174921 ) solved it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466473&page=4 .  " The
themes that work should be the ones which have the same panel
background as normal application windows. That's why the problem
is not apparent there. However, newer themes often use a
different color or a background image for the panel.  The fix is
to apply the panel's properties (background color or background
image) to GtkPlug widget class, which is not considered in most
stock themes.  1) Find out your panel's background color or the
path to its background image (in case it has one). For the color
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