well if I can't convince you thats bugged what else can I say? Compiz fixes
the issue for me is all I can say...
THe guy who got me started with this on the IRC help channel believed
transparency would help limit the screen burning on his monitor, i guess he
has a black desktop background, or maybe worried the whole panel wasn't
transparent not sure. I dunno if his worries are valid but i was determined
to get it working.
I just think it looks cool, i'm also using compiz to make the start menu and
context menus transparent. and using the trailfocus plugin for transparent
windows, snapping windows and some other things. I don't find it bloated
since I don't notice a change in memory, and compiz is only using about
3-6% cpu depending, cpu running cool still.