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title: Bitmaps for Gnome Panel Background
date: 2010-06-19T19:59:28+00:00
modified: 2010-06-19T20:04:20+00:00
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  name: Kaspars
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  - Design
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  - User Interface
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# Bitmaps for Gnome Panel Background

![Gnome panel background in Ubuntu 10.04](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ubuntu-panel-background-img.png?strip=all&quality=90&resize=500,50 "Gnome panel background in Ubuntu 10.04")

How come that for interface elements in Gnome (in Ubuntu 10.04) we’re still stuck with bitmaps instead of scalable vector graphics.