Online accounts advanced settings panel display all labels white on grey

[Ugo Riboni]

As shown in the attached screenshot all the labels in the "Advanced" panel in the Online Accounts settings applet appear with white labels on a grey background. They are extremely hard to read.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.13-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 30 13:27:00 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-29 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 23.90-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.13-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.0-0ubuntu1

[David King (amigadave)]

I tested this by embedding the Jabber options widget inside a very simple test application, and the same white text is shown there. It is therefore not the fault of the UOA panel (it could have been an overridden theme colour). It seems to be a bug in the Jabber plugin provided by Empathy.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

I spent a lot of time investigating this and I'm pretty sure that's a GTK+ bug. If you focus out and then focus in the window, the labels are displayed!

By any chance, do you have an in-house Gtk+ expert that could take a look on this really weird bug?

[David King (amigadave)]

Added Andrea Cimitan, who said to ping him if I have any theming problems.

@Cimi: You can get to the problematic bit of UI as follows:
1. add a Jabber account from the Online Accounts panel
2. in the account details for the new account, click the ‘Edit options’ button
3. click the ‘Advanced’ expander, the text labels are white on a grey background
4. focus out and then focus back in, the text labels are as normal

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I am having a look, thx for keeping me in the loop

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Seems to be a bug in the app, I can reproduce with adwaita as well. try disabling all the colorizations you do in the app and see if you can reproduce it

[David King (amigadave)]

I can reproduce it with a simple test application:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1200460/

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Should be reported upstream gtk+ maybe

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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