because of Unity theming, Eclipse tooltips are unreadable.

[Mason McGill]

This thread covers the issue and how users can fix it:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/70599/how-to-change-tooltip-background-color-in-unity

I believe theming should be adjusted so this issue is avoided in the first place. My lab uses Ubuntu because it's currently the most developer friendly OS. Eclipse, the most popular open-source IDE, should be usable out-of-the-box.

Black-background tooltips are probably a bad idea for many other applications as well.

[Mason McGill (mason-mcgill)]

To see this bug,

-open Eclipse
-make a new project and a new class
-at the top type, on a new line "import java"
-with your pointer, hover over the word "java", underlined in red
-you'll see a tooltip come up, with 8 unreadable (blue-on-black) "quick fixes"

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[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Hi Mason, thank you for your bug report. I'm making this a duplicate of bug 540332, please have a look at it.

[Mason McGill (mason-mcgill)]

Yep; same bug. Thanks!

On 10 March 2012 01:39, Fitoschido <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 540332 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540332
>
> Hi Mason, thank you for your bug report. I'm making this a duplicate of
> bug 540332, please have a look at it.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 540332
> eclipse: tooltips unreadable
>
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> Title:
> because of Unity theming, Eclipse tooltips are unreadable.
>
> Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> This thread covers the issue and how users can fix it:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/70599/how-to-change-tooltip-background-color-in-unity
>
> I believe theming should be adjusted so this issue is avoided in the
> first place. My lab uses Ubuntu because it's currently the most
> developer friendly OS. Eclipse, the most popular open-source IDE,
> should be usable out-of-the-box.
>
> Black-background tooltips are probably a bad idea for many other
> applications as well.
>
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[Dmitry Gribanov (itux-c)]

I have this issue too with eclipse and chromium tooltips in Radiance theme (light colors). I have to edit these files to fix this problem:
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

here is what i changed

ntooltip_bg_color #F6F4F2
ntooltip_fg_color #4c4c4c