I'm running Xubuntu 14.04, and the problem definitely exists here. Yes, the icon backgrounds are technically transparent, in that the underlying video is visible outside the icons' rounded corners, but the icons themselves are opaque and cover almost the entire video frame.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309605 Title: OSD (skip, pause) take full window (and fullscreen) height Status in Totem Movie Player: Expired Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The OSD icons for forward/backward skip and pause have the wrong heigt. They take the full (sometimes even more) height on the player window and also full height in fullscreen mode. This appeared after the upgrade to trusty (totem 3.10.1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/1309605/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp