When opening a file that specifies a background gradient using PowerPoint 2010, the font formatting remains, but the background for the themes is not fully applied. A sample of this occurs in the freely available University lecture notes that AMD released for OpenCL. http://developer.amd.com/zones/OpenCLZone/universities/Pages/default.aspx
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
I think, Background Gradient is a feature, that has yet to be implemented.
Thanks for bugreport Please, attach file that demonstrates problem
I just tested the files that had the issue with a newer release of Libreoffice. Libreoffice 3.5.4.2 ( version from Ubuntu 12.04 ) did not display this issue.
Thanks for additional testing