Bug#422952: System Monitor restarts with initial black background, regardless of configured background color

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440512
thanks

> I changed the default background color of all the "System Monitor" gnome
> panel applet graphs from black to white. However, when the applet loads
> (when start an X session) the graphs are initially all black.  As
> seconds pass, the applets records a graph with a white background,
> eventually replacing all of the black background.
> 
> This "start with a black background" behavior happens via another means
> as well.  If I right click on the applet and select Preferences, I'm
> presented with a window that has "Monitored Resources" such as
> "Processor" and "Swap Space".  If I disable, then re-enable a resource,
> all the graphs to the right of the toggled resources are disabled then
> re-enabled, exposing the "start from black" behavior.
> To clarify what I mean by "graphs to the right":
> 
> 0) Set the background of all resources to white.
> 1) Enable monitoring of all the resources
> 2) Toggle (disable then re-enabled) the "Processor" resource.
> 3) Notice that all the other resources graphs are blanked with black and
> gradually fill with white as the graph is recored.
> 4) Toggle, for example, "Swap Space", and notice only the "Load" and
> "Harddisk" are reset to black.
> 
> I described this black background bug in March 26, 2006.  I was confused
> why my bug report was hard to reproduce, since doing so seemed trivial.
> I upgraded to the most recent version to follow up on the bug, but I was
> disappointed the bug hadn't been fixed yet I couldn't think what to add
> to the bug report.  I was about to give up, when I noticed that the
> about box on the applet still said  "System Monitor 2.14.3" when I know
> I had just upgraded to System Monitor 2.16.1.  When I left clicked on
> the applet, the window that appears has it's own separate About, which
> DOES read "System Monitor 2.16.1".  
> So I luckily figured out that these are two separate software packages,
> despite the "About" box both naming themselves "System Monitor", and the
> close (one left click) user interface association.  Please consider
> changing the About for the applet to read "Gnome Applets: System
> Monitor" or "System Monitor Applet", so future bug reports are more
> likely be filled to the correct package.   The bug report from March
> 2006 is Debian Bug 359966.

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report and the clear instructions on how to reproduce
it. I have forwarded it to the upstream developers, you might want to
subscribe to the report for further updates,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440512

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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