When I tell the sensors panel plugin to "Show coloured bars" they all turn black, as opposed to the expected behaviour of each being a different colour. Also they seem to take up the entire height of the panel, and so look ugly next to other panel plugins like sysload and netload. I can provide a screenshot if you request it.
Of course, you have to provide a colour according to the RGB standard ranging from 0 to 255 per channel and express it in hexadecimal values, e.g. #AAAA00 for yellow. The plugin can't guess 2550 color values differing enough on each user's opinion, eye fitness, contrast, ... The height of the bars is known top be different and although it was actually intended to use the ful height, the current development version is going to have a little border around. Actually, there isn't any standard on this, Enrico tried to introduce one, but failed due to lack of interest of the others. Please close this bug as FIXED or INVALID.
Ok thanks for the info about the colours - obviously it is working well now.
*** Bug 9771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***