Gentoo: Unreadable tooltips in Inkscape.

[J077]

White text on bright yellow background. Attached
screenshot.
This also existed in earlier versions.

[Rwst (rwst)]

What OS is this? If Linux, do you use a non-default GUI theme, which?

[J077 (j077)]

Gentoo Linux. I don't think i use a non-default theme for
GTK. I have KDE and have set colours to be dark backround,
light foreground.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

Is KDE picking your colours?

If you have asked for a light text, what colour did you expect?

[J077 (j077)]

Hmm... i can't tell where the problem is. Inkscape uses GTK,
right? And doesn't Firefox? The tooltips in Firefox display
just fine: black foreground and the same yellow background
just as Inkscape tooltips have.

[Rwst (rwst)]

we can only resolve this if you 1. tell us under what theme
this effect appears; 2. try other themes (by installing
gtk-chtheme), and telling us about any differences. in any
case, this is unusual because we know quite a lot of gentoo
users that do not have such problems.

if you don't answer after a while, we'll assume you solved
your problem yourself.

[J077 (j077)]

I'm using a KDE theme called "Dark Blue". I don't remember
whether it came from kde or i defined it myself. Anyway,
using the default KDE theme, tooltips are readable in inkscape.

gtk-chtheme only shows one theme - "Raleigh". It's
completely different from the one Inkscape and other gtk
apps seem to use. gtk-chtheme does not use colours provided
by kde. Tooltips are rendered with a bit darker yellow and
the text in them is black.

My logic tells me that Inkscape uses the KDE color set for
rendering the tooltip text, but some other predefined color
(which does not depend on KDE colors) to paint the
background of the tooltip.

[Rwst (rwst)]

thanks for the info. what color set is used for inkscape
tooltips is entirely decided by the underlying toolkit not
inkscape. this is therefore not an inkscape bug. closing.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

What toolkit does inkscape use to render the tooltips? I'd
like to report this upstream. Thanks.

[Rwst (rwst)]

are you the original submitter? i have another idea before
you report that to the GTK+ folks. look at your
$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file, there might be this annoying change
defined. be aware that your report is the only so far about
such an issue.

[J077 (j077)]

I configured GTK to use my Qt/KDE theme, and now the
tooltips are a bit more visible, although the problem does
persist. Removing the .gtkrc-2.0 file switches back to the
default GTK theme and makes them unreadable again. But I
figured out that this is definately not directly related to
inkscape. I'm currently checking out my GTK-QT theme.