I very much doubt it will be fixed even in 10.10 as far as VLC is concerned. As already explained, we need to disable transparency to work around a problem between Qt4 and XVideo. So there is simply no way we can make the icon's background transparent.
-- Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
