Under KDE w/ qtcurve tooltips are just black rectangles

[Uqbar]

No KDE application is suffering this issue.
I've set up the GTK+ engine for KDE to use QtCurve as well.
I've also tried KDE both v4.7.1 and v4.7.2 and a few different styles.
Libreoffice is the only application with such a behavior. Mozilla Firefox v7.0.1 and aMule are working fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19~ppa1-generic-pae-ck 3.0.4-ck1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae-ck i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 17 14:28:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (2 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Pete Chown (pc-metathinking)]

The tooltip text is always black. For some reason, the default tooltip background colour is also black, which results in black text on a black background. You can change this by going to

System Settings > Application Appearance > Colours > Colours

If you change the background colour to something bright, you will be able to read the black text.

Presumably this needs to be fixed in the KDE defaults.

[wizard10000 (wizard10000)]

This bug affects me also. Changing the tooltip background from the default black solved the problem.

[Paul Loughman (snowhog)]

Kubuntu Oneiric 11.10
Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.7.1

Affects me also. Changing the Tooltip Background color in System Settings > Application Appearance > Colours > Colours to something other than Black (a "lighter" color) works. What one cannot change however, is the color of the text - changing Tooltip Text to any other color has no effect on LibreOffice.

[Joeman1 (jgiles)]

Kubuntu Oneiric 11.10
Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.7.2 - from kubuntu-ppa/ppa

Ditto with above comment.

Joe

[Joeman1 (jgiles)]

Have an addition to my previous comment...

Yeah, it worked for Openoffice, however, it also changes all the tool tip colors throughout KDE.

So, for example, if I change the tool tip background to, say white, then every tool tip in KDE is white which looks really bad; especially if you hover over icons in ksystemsettings and get a huge white block with black chars... Really terrible to look at.

Anyway to change the setting just for Openoffice?

Thanks!
Joe

[Andreas Blochberger (andreas-blochberger)]

The bug is in the libreoffice-kde i guess. LibreOffice does not use the KDE color setting for the hinttext but only for the background