Toggles in GTK hid are not visible

[stevewilliams]

The toggle buttons in th GTK hid are not visible. They
look like buttons, and they click like buttons, but there
is no (or very little) visual indication that the toggle
is in our out. For example, the later enable toggles on
the left side do not change state visibly. (At first I
thought they were ordinary buttons.)

I'm on SuSE linux 10.1, gtk2 2.8.10 is installed. I'm
using the packaged version 20070208 as compiled and
packaged by Werner Hoch.

[nelsonrn (nelsonrn)]

This problem is present in 20070208p1 as well. The only way to see the state of a button is to move the pointer off the button. Only then does the state become apparent.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

Could you attach a screenshot?

[Frank Bergmann (frank-launchpad-frajasalo)]

I try to interpret the issue:

I use "component" layer button in this example.
In this screenshot the (mouse)pointer is over the button before clicking oni t.

[Frank Bergmann (frank-launchpad-frajasalo)]

Now I clicked on the button but the pointer is still over it - no visual feedback

[Frank Bergmann (frank-launchpad-frajasalo)]

Only after moving pointer away the button I see the new state.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

I'm not sure there is a lot we can do about this.

When the mouse is over the button, the button gets the "prelight" state. That coincidentally looks just like the popped out button, and we don't seem to be setting the background correctly for that button state.

It should be possible to override the GTK style for the background colour of the prelight state.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

(You might note that half way through comment #6 I changed my mind about whether this was something we can fix or not)

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Fixed in commit c0ec7462facd046414734ebd0a65917f67ddcf74