Makie theme with transparent background not working

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I would like to set once and for all the background of my axes and figures to be transparent. I thought I could do that as a theme in Makie.jl. The following minimal code fails to produce a transparent background

using CairoMakie
CairoMakie.activate!()

theme = Theme(
  Figure = (backgroundcolor = :transparent,),
  Axis = (backgroundcolor = :transparent,)
)
set_theme!(theme)

fig = Figure()
ax = Axis(fig[1, 1])
lines!(ax, 1:10, rand(10))

save("transparent_test.svg", fig)

whereas the intrusive instructions

fig = Figure(backgroundcolor = :transparent)
ax = Axis(fig[1, 1], backgroundcolor = :transparent)

work well.

Is there a way to setup the background transparency from a theme, or am I missing something?

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You should try

theme = Theme(Axis = (backgroundcolor = :transparent))

see example in Themes | Makie.