Have any luck with this Liamjake?
I've just recently had a similar issue when making background images to use for my own panel.
I wanted to create a glossy dark panel image & discovered when doing so the indicator, notification area & clock backgrounds seem to mess with how the panel is displayed.
The left of the panel is fine, but the right gets messed up behind the plugins.
It appears the panel is displayed from the left hand end in each plugin where it should be showing the right hand end of the panel which is basically a mirror image of the dark section at the left hand end.
Where ever the plugin is put the panel image behind it gets messed up.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/4Kzlp6j.png[/img]
What I ended up doing was creating panel images without darker/different ends & they seem to display ok, the same display bug is happening but it's hardly noticable.
This one the left hand end's top is slightly darker than the right & it can be seen where it changes behind the plugins.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/BIhR1Ml.png[/img]
And this one which I'm happy with I made the brightness consistant all the way along & it's not noticable at all.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/MKJKV6Z.png[/img]
The images:
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/Pnb2td5.png[/img]
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/0lIgVH2.png[/img]
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/kHZsLtT.png[/img]
Bottom one is the best I think.
To get them to look right I found it pays to resize them to whatever size the panel is.
I made them to suit my panel width & height which is 1280x72.
If the image height is lower than the panel height they get layered to make up the difference, if the image height is higher than the panel height then whatever is greater than the number of pixels of panel height won't be shown 8)
EDIT: Forgot to mention, using these in a vertical panel they might need to be rotated 90 degrees & resized etc. otherwise they'll be displayed horizontally layered for the height of the panel.
I've just recently had a similar issue when making background images to use for my own panel.
I wanted to create a glossy dark panel image & discovered when doing so the indicator, notification area & clock backgrounds seem to mess with how the panel is displayed.
The left of the panel is fine, but the right gets messed up behind the plugins.
It appears the panel is displayed from the left hand end in each plugin where it should be showing the right hand end of the panel which is basically a mirror image of the dark section at the left hand end.
Where ever the plugin is put the panel image behind it gets messed up.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/4Kzlp6j.png[/img]
What I ended up doing was creating panel images without darker/different ends & they seem to display ok, the same display bug is happening but it's hardly noticable.
This one the left hand end's top is slightly darker than the right & it can be seen where it changes behind the plugins.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/BIhR1Ml.png[/img]
And this one which I'm happy with I made the brightness consistant all the way along & it's not noticable at all.
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/MKJKV6Z.png[/img]
The images:
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/Pnb2td5.png[/img]
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/0lIgVH2.png[/img]
[img height=45 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/kHZsLtT.png[/img]
Bottom one is the best I think.
To get them to look right I found it pays to resize them to whatever size the panel is.
I made them to suit my panel width & height which is 1280x72.
If the image height is lower than the panel height they get layered to make up the difference, if the image height is higher than the panel height then whatever is greater than the number of pixels of panel height won't be shown 8)
EDIT: Forgot to mention, using these in a vertical panel they might need to be rotated 90 degrees & resized etc. otherwise they'll be displayed horizontally layered for the height of the panel.