Rename box often invisible

[M4he]

The current version in the 14.04 repo (1.8.4) contains the following bug:
When trying to rename a file via right-click -> "Rename..." the entire rename box turns completely invisible (no border, no text) preventing any actual renaming operation without guessing the letter positions. This often happens when the view is scrolled down and a file is to be renamed which was not visible before scrolling down i.e. a file at the bottom of the list.

This has been fixed upstream. I've singled out the GitHub commits that fix this issue:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/f54c1ed253e266ae947c5e51698583654fb61084.patch
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/d5377cfd53034b6ab5588376322126f48782ec59.patch

I've reproduced the bug and confirmed the fix using the patches on 2 machines running Xubuntu 14.04.

[M4he (mahe)]

I've created a patch for nemo-1.8.4 that contains 2 things:
1. The 2 fixes from nemo's github posted before
2. Some additional code fixes pulled from nautilus' source code that fix remaining issues of the rename boxes with GTK 3.10 as per [1]

The attached patch can be seen as one whole source code merge from nautilus' "eel-editable-label" widget code to fix it for GTK 3.10.
Because in fact, the github patches are partly merges from nautilus as well. The second part of my patch just completes it.

[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/634

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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