lubuntu abiword mouseover dialogues too dark

[zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

When I hover my mouse over abiword, the main toolbar items' descriptions that appear are black text on a dark background. This makes them nearly impossible to read. Sorry if I have this wrong I've never submitted a bug report before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: abiword 2.9.2+svn20120603-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 28 12:21:17 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-25 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: abiword
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Alex Gunyon, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please provide a screenshot or screencast (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Screencast) of this problem?

[zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)]

This was actually on my dad's laptop and I'm not at home for a while now, so can't do anymore testing - apologies!

[shredley vashtar (svashtar)]

same here
mouseover dialogues are black on black (illegible)

Lubuntu 12.10
Abiword 2.9.2

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Marking Confirmed based on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1094243/comments/4 .

[shredley vashtar (svashtar)]

Just downloaded a Lubuntu update - it fixed this -
Now the mouseover dialogues are black on beige.

Nice!

[Ben Clements (benclements)]

SOLVED update did not fix it for me - but then I found the lubuntu 'Customise Look and Feel' options under Preferences (in start menu). In the colour tab you need to tick the box for 'use customised colour scheme'. Thats it! This tab includes colours for tooltips, and if the box isn't ticked, they don't default sensibly.

I don't know why lubuntu doesn't have this configured at install, but there you go. Definitely lubuntu not abiword causing this.

Great OS though! I will never use anything else now.

[shredley vashtar (svashtar)]

Thanks for the tip -