If I'm using a theme without transparencies, I'd expect the Software Center, to respect that.
I can confirm this only happens to with the Arc theme.
Either use a global style from the theme, or have custom style defined within the theme that respects the transparency setting selected at build time for Arc.
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If I'm using a theme without transparencies, I'd expect the Software Center, to respect that. I can confirm this only happens to with the Arc theme.
Either use a global style from the theme, or have custom style defined within the theme that respects the transparency setting selected at build time for Arc.