Menus built with dbusmenu-gtk on Cairo-Dock are unreadable only with Ambiance GTK theme

[Michal Voců]

Menu shown by nm-applet is very hard to read in Ambiance theme, because it has light background and light foreground. The submenus, on the other hand, have correct (dark) background (see the attached picture). This happens when using cairo-dock session. I have fully updated (as of today) precise 12.04 packages.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

I only have this bug with the Ambiance GTK theme, no problem with Radiance or Adwaita, Adwaita Dark, OMG, etc.
Note that I only have this bug with the Status Notifier menu which simply displays the gtk menu (by using dbusmenu-gtk and Ubuntu's indicator-applications daemon).

[lylambda (lylambda)]

That didn't concern just nm-applet. The sound controller is impacted too (see attachment)

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

As I said on IRC (#ubuntu-artwork), I can fix this bug by adding '.menu,' just before "Genericmenuitem .menu, DbusmenuGtkMenu .menu," on gtk-widgets.css:1045 but of course, this is a problem for other apps.

Submenu's background is dark: http://uppix.net/7/4/4/5faa54d41169abdaddfec60169a73.png

It's a bit strange because the menu is normal and the text is made for a dark menu...
It seems for the menu it doesn't use:
    Genericmenuitem .menu,
    DbusmenuGtkMenu .menu,
    .menubar .menu,
    .primary-toolbar .menu {
    (...)
    }

But for menu items, it uses the configuration set in:
     Genericmenuitem .menuitem,
     DbusmenuGtkMenu .menuitem,
     .menubar .menuitem,
     .primary-toolbar .menuitem {
    (...)
    }

I see that Unity has its own .css file. Is maybe Cairo-Dock needs that too?

Or is it maybe a bug in Cairo-Dock?

PS: on the gtk-widgets.css file of the Radiance theme, I think there is a mistake at the line 1282: there is a dot at the end of the line instead of a comma.
        Genericmenuitem .menuitem .accelerator:hover,
=> DbusmenuGtkMenu .menuitem .accelerator:hover.
        .menubar .menuitem .accelerator:hover,

[Quentin Horlay (quintus89)]

I also have this annoying bug, how can I fix it?

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

For those with the bug, I uploaded a new version of this light-themes package on my ppa (ppa:matttbe/ppa). It includes the previous workaround mentioned on comment #5. (but it's a workaround...)

[Baudoin Thierry (baudoin-thierry)]

I had the same bug!
Now I use the matttbe's theme and it work correctly.
Thanks

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

I can confirm that I still have this bug with the latest version of light-themes 0.1.10 on Ubuntu Quantal

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Ubuntu 12.04

Bug still present

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

Hello,

This bug seems to be fixed on Ubuntu Quantal, thanks!

[chris (ign-christian)]

Hello..

This bug still present on Ubuntu 12.04.2 (full system update today)

[Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)]

Yes, it's only fixed on Ubuntu Quantal, too bad.

Note that you can also use the version from my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~matttbe/+archive/ppa/+files/light-themes_0.1.9.2-0ubuntu3%7Eprecise_all.deb
But it should be much better to fix this bug on Precise repositories.

[johnkjaer (johnnielsen100)]

Thanks Matthieu

Your PPA works.

[chris (ign-christian)]

Thanks Matthieu...excellent

Now my Cairo dock menu looks like Unity..:)

[gcc (chris+ubuntu-qwirx)]

Thanks Matthieu, I can confirm that your updated light-themes package makes the menus readable again on Precise LTS ( https://launchpad.net/~matttbe/+archive/ppa/+files/light-themes_0.1.9.2-0ubuntu3%7Eprecise_all.deb).

I consider this quite a serious bug in the version of Cairo-Dock available in LTS. It's one of several bugs that give me a bad feeling about using Cairo in a "stable" release. Is there anything you can do to push this update towards the next LTS update and/or warn users downloading Cairo following the "simple" installation path (on the Cairo-Dock website) that they need to download your updated light-themes as well? I'm sure this would give many new users a much better impression. Thanks!