In ~/.gtkrc-2.0 insert this line
include “/home/<user_name>/.gnome2/panel-fontrc”
then create the file panel-fontrc in .gnome2, which consists of the following lines:
style “my_color”
{
fg[NORMAL] = “#4353b6″
}
widget “*PanelWidget*” style “my_color”
widget “*PanelApplet*” style “my_color”
and that’s it. All you have to do is choose the color and do a killall gnome-panel. The second “widget” line affects only the applets and the first one does the rest.
To chose the color you can use the color select dialog in GIMP.
