Second this: I'd really like a progress bar without the diagonal stripes.

Oh yes - removing the stripes was the first thing i changed in a working copy of svn source codes...

In case people are wondering how to use this feature, this is how I got it to work: In the gtkrc file of the theme I was using, in the part after it says


engine "murrine" {

I added the setting:


progressbarstyle = 0 # 0 = plain, 1 = striped

This removed the candy-cane-likes stripes from the progress bar.