I move the bug to human-icon-theme, as you're referring to it. It's not really a bug in gnome-netstatus.
** Changed in: gnome-netstatus (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-netstatus => human-icon-theme -- netstatus-applet: Confusing colors while transmiting https://launchpad.net/bugs/43109 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs