Comment 16 for bug 274461

Chris: The reason this is being claimed as a bug is because gnome-system-monitor is the only app in the desktop which is making its background transparent (I'll disregard GNOME Terminal because terminals are strange hairy beasties that many users won't care about).

gnome-system-monitor looks out of place in the context of the rest of the desktop, so people assume something is wrong.

It's not a bug because upstream intended to do this. It's not a feature because it doesn't really add anything other than confusion.

In an ideal world I think we would change the app to look like all the others, but right now it falls inbetween the cracks of "bug" and "feature".