Thu Jun 04 00:32:50 1998  George Lebl  <jirka@5z.com>

        * panel_config.c: fixed some braindamages, switch between,
          color, pixmap and standard backgrounds, added a color selector

        * panel-widget.[ch]: added a background type variable and support
          the above changes, fix some some braindamages, scale the back
	  pixmap when needed (needs to be optimized but it works for now)

        * main.c,panel.[ch]: support for the above

        * gnome-panel.idl (and all corba files): added a sync corba call
          so that applets can force a save of the session

        * panel_config.c, panel_config_global.c: sync the configuration after
          apply

        * panel.c, main.c: add a timeout to sync every 10 seconds if something
          has changed

originally this was supposed to go in after the freeze, but since it fixes
so many braindamages with the way the backgrounds (they were kind of hacked in
before)

this adresses bugs #50 (kind of) and #166, plus a few others which
aren't on the bug tracker (but which I've had on my todo list:)