Panel Font Color

I have been successfully able to change the font color in the panel by adding the following code to the .gtkrc-2.0 file. But doing same have given me 1 issue, right clicking the Thrash icon gives me the pop-up for the thrash properties but the text in there is all white on white background. though I can see are the icons and on hovering the mouse over the rows the selected row becomes blue so can read the text too. But without that its bad, same is the behaviour with the system monitor applet. #Changes Panel Font Color style "panel" { fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" # other commented values } widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel" widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel" class "*Panel*" style "panel" widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel" class "*notif*" style "panel" class "*Notif*" style "panel" class "*Tray*" style "panel" class "*tray*" style "panel" Any help is appriciated. Thanks Saurabh Sharma