Comment 2 for bug 331445

If you install the latest gdm theme (ubuntu-gdm-theme in bzr) you'll notice that although there is a gtk-2.0 dir with a valid gtkrc it is not respected correctly (the select session pop-up from the options menu does not seem to respect any theme colors). A hint here, the new gtkrc colors have a dark bg and white text.

If you select the same gtkrc from the GUI (described above) it all works fine.