Broken Tool Descriptions in Windows High Contrast

Bug #1389079 reported by Anthony
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Inkscape
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Bug Description

The tool descriptions (when my mouse highlights a tool) don't work in Windows when the layout is customized to High Contrast. I suppose the reason has something to do with the black tool descriptions appearing on a black background. It still works when I use the normal contrast setting.

Contrast Settings on Control Panel/Appearance/Personalization

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Inkscape (0.48.5) on Windows 8.1 64bit

Tags: ui win32
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Anthony (ineocloud) wrote :
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Please add information about OS/platform and Inkscape version (see Inkscape menu 'Help > About Inkscape') to the bug description.

Did you install 32bit or 64bit packages of Inkscape?

(The difference might matter because they do not necessarily use the same version of the GTK+ toolkit, and this report looks more like an upstream bug in GTK+ for Windows, not specific to Inkscape).

tags: added: ui
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Same issue was also reported for GIMP (another GTK+ app):
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734567

tags: removed: inkview
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Anthony (ineocloud) wrote :

I have the latest Inkscape (0.48.5) on Windows 8.1 64bit.

jazzynico (jazzynico)
Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
su_v (suv-lp)
description: updated
tags: removed: win64
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