Menubars don't look properly in some applications with Mint-X

[Andy C.]

Release: Linux Mint Debian Edition 32-bit (latest updates installed, as of 19/01/2011)
         Linux Mint LXDE Edition 32-bit + Metacity (instead of Openbox) (latest updates installed, as of 19/03/2011)
         (Well, actually, all Linux Mint editions. ...)

With the Mint-X theme active, menu bars don't look properly in Terminal (gnome-terminal) and Pidgin. I've traced this back to lines 1186-1188 in /usr/share/themes/Mint-X-Metal/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, reproduced here:

widget_class "*TerminalWindow*GtkMenuBar" style "gradient-menubar"
widget "*<PurpleMain>" style "gradient-menubar"
widget "*tmw-menubar" style "gradient-menubar"

The problem disappears if those 3 lines are commented out.

What happens: the menu bar is lighter than the lower gradient color of the title bar, if that makes sense.
What should happen: the menu bar should "continue" the title bar's gradient.

I encountered this problem twice already; in fact, I posted the above workaround on my blog (http://bit.ly/edT5rf) in early December.

[Ikey Doherty (ikey)]

Hi, thank you for reporting this issue!
Could you please provide a screenshot to show exactly what you mean? And
one with the temp-fix applied? Thanks!

[Andy C. (ndc)]

Here you go. 2 screenshots of the Pidgin buddy list.
No fix: http://i.imgur.com/mDiRj.png
Fix applied: http://i.imgur.com/DPG7n.png

Sorry for the delay, Launchpad apparently doesn't send me e-mail notifications.

[David Green (david4dev)]

I can confirm this problem and the fix for the Mint-X and Mint-X-Metal themes on Mint 11 RC.