Lucid gtk theme interferes with tooltips in eclipse

[cfriedt]

Binary package hint: libgtk2.0-0

I doubt that this can really be considered a problem with eclipse, so I've reported it under gtk+. I might be interpreting this incorrectly, because it might have something to do with transparency, but I doubt it.

The gtk theme in Lucid Lynx renders tooltips as white text on black backgrounds. Maybe this works for tooltips that are specified to contain only WHITE text, or the default text colour, but in eclipse, the tooltip text is primarily specified to be black.

Tooltips in eclipse are incredibly useful - they allow programmers to peek into function / structure / class definitions without the need to open up a new editor window.

The 'normal' background of tooltips in eclipse is a light yellow, which provides good contrast. However, in Lucid, this background colour is overridden to be black, which renders the tooltip text useless.

Whatever software is responsible for FORCING the tooltip text background to be black, should most definitely NOT do so. I can understand that having a 'default' background colour is good for consistency purposes, but if a program specifies a colour, that colour should not be overridden.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: eclipse-platform 3.5.2-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: hostname 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 30 12:16:55 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eclipse
xulrunner-versions:
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.9
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.3

[bjinwright (bjinwright)]

I'm experiencing the same problem with the Ambiance theme.

[Damien Lecan (dlecan)]

Duplicates bug #540332 ?

[cfriedt (chrisfriedt)]

definitely a duplicate.