Menu bar is illegible grey on grey with GTK look and feel on default theme

[Captain Chaos]

On the default Ubuntu theme, using the GTK look and feel (the default system look and feel on Ubuntu), menu bars are almost completely illegible, to the point of being unusable. They use grey on a slightly darker shade of grey. The menus themselves look fine, they use a light grey background and dark grey text .

I assume it's picking up the wrong colour from the GTK theme. I haven't actually tested other themes, it's possible that they would look better, but it seems to me that it should be usable with the default theme. Using other look and feels would also work around the problem, but that's not a solution for similar reasons.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openjdk-7-jre 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 13 13:17:15 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111129.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-7
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Neil C Smith (neilcsmith-net)]

It's a bug in the Java GTK look and feel, but see this post on the NetBeans forum for a simple workaround - http://forums.netbeans.org/post-127692.html#127692