libreoffice menu buttons are not visible when clicked in Lubuntu 11.10

[Gabriel Diosan]

I installed Libreoffice and the package Libreoffice-gtk in Lubuntu 11.10 beta. When starting any of the Libreoffice programs and clicking on the top menu buttons, the text disappears and all you see is white. The text in the actual menu itself appears fine but the top text (e.g File, Edit, View, Insert ect) is not visible. I have attached a screenshot as it is a bit hard to describe.

It looks like a bug in Libreoffice-gtk but I am not 100% sure.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libreoffice-gtk 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 3 17:28:23 2011
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110830.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Reimerdes (timorei)]

The bug is still present for any theme using a rather light menubar, I guess.

As far as I can tell, this is a libreoffice bug, or libreoffice-gtk bug: it does seem to automatically adjust the text colors of selected items depending on their background. If bg[SELECTED] for the menu is rather dark, it seems to default to white text, wich is bad and not consistent to the way other applications get their menubar, menuitem, menu and selected colors.

Now, the solution I'd wish for would be to see a libreoffice-gtk3, but I do believe changing the way the colors for the menu and manubars are fetched is much more reasonable - for a short term fix.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

This has been fixed long ago.