Colour issue in Eclipse with Greybird

[flg]

Xubuntu : 12.04
shimmer-themes : 1.3.0-0ubuntu1
Eclipse-cdt : 8.0.2-1
Gtk theme: Greybird

All configurations are unmodified after fresh installation.

Some fonts are hardly or not visible.

First, in the editor-dropdown (CTRL+E in editor) : unselected elements font is light grey, background is dark grey, it's really hard to read. AFAICT there is no parameter in Eclipse configuration to change any of these colours.

Second, in the quick outline (CTRL+L in editor) : the default font is exactly the same as the default background. The colours can be adjusted in Eclipse configuration.

Enclosed: screenshots showing the problems.

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

Hi,
thanks for reporting the bug.

The background-color in the two screenshots is not dark grey, but black (as in #000). Black isn't really used as a background-color in Greybird, so ad-hoc I don't see how this can be a Greybird-bug. Could you please test whether this bug is reproducible with other themes that use dark menus (e.g. Albatross or Ubuntu's Ambiance)?

The problem I see at the moment is that this is a Java application and that I'm not sure I can do anything about those directly in the Gtk-theme. Maybe we can figure out some workaround if we find themes that work and why they do.

[flg (flg)]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Simon Steinbeiß
<email address hidden> wrote:
> The background-color in the two screenshots is not dark grey, but black
> (as in #000). Black isn't really used as a background-color in Greybird,
> so ad-hoc I don't see how this can be a Greybird-bug. Could you please
> test whether this bug is reproducible with other themes that use dark
> menus (e.g. Albatross or Ubuntu's Ambiance)?

Sorry for the lack of precision. Albatross does not indeed have this
problem, that's why I thought it was a Gtk theme issue in the first
place.

Enclosed a screenshot of the editor-dropdown with Albatross theme.

I dont't have Ambiance installed on this machine, but tell me if it
can help and I'll give it a try.

> The problem I see at the moment is that this is a Java application and
> that I'm not sure I can do anything about those directly in the Gtk-
> theme. Maybe we can figure out some workaround if we find themes that
> work and why they do.

And the configuration of Eclipse regarding colour and themes is not
always clear and simple.

Thanks for taking some time to help on this, I really appreciate it.
flg

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

Could someone please confirm this on 12.10?

[Luki (humbell)]

I can confirm this happens also on 12.10 (xubuntu default theme)

[HenMan (hen-man)]

Simon, plain black is used as tooltip color in Greybird.

I was able to work around this issue by doing the following:

- sudo leafpad /usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
- search for the line that reads gtk_color_scheme = "tooltip_bg_color:#000000\ntooltip_fg_color:#E1E1E1" # Tooltips.
- change #000000 to some other color (I used the usual #686868 which seems to be a reasonable compromise between readability and looks)
- save
- switch to another theme and back to Greybird to apply changed settings

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

@HenMan: please report a bug @eclipse, they really shouldn't be using the tooltip-color for their dropdown-menus, that's just awkward and might cause epic fails (like in our case).

I'll see whether I can find a workaround that doesn't mean I have to change the tooltip colors everywhere else.

[John Quinn (jp-quinn)]

The workaround described by HenMan does not work for me. I'm using Greybird on Xubuntu 16.04 and Eclipse Neon (4.6.0). My Eclipse theme is set to GTK, but I've also tried with other themes but without success. Using the GNome ColorChooser does not work either. Has anyone with this configuration come up with a good workaround?

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

From what I can tell, this is no longer a problem with Xubuntu 22.04 and Eclipse 2022-03.