Looks like it's not just the clock, but a more generic bug: Any icon previously clicked will light up if and indicator panel is expanded. So for example if the last icon clicked was the start firefox icon then the shutdown panel was clicked, the panel expanded with the usual suspend, restart etc but the back of the firefox icon lights up. When the indicator is closed the icon also switches off.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779689 Title: The clock on the panel colors itself even if other applet is activated -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs