Open Office looks like hell with a dark Gtk-theme in Ubuntu and XUbuntu

[Christina Stöckel]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

If you choose to have a dark theme in Ubuntu or XUbuntu, then OpenOffice looks very confusing and ugly (no icons, black color for the paper in Writer is not good either etc etc).

A possible fix could be to force OpenOffice to use another lighter theme, or give OpenOffice a proper dark icon-pack (or something like it) and force it to use a white background for papers. I appended the following line to the file "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice" to force it to use a light theme:

export GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Shouldnt stuff like this be default for Ubuntu, so new users dont think they messed up their OpenOffice for good? Or that they feel forced to use a light theme, because else OpenOffice will look like hell / be unuseable (I cant find anything in OpenOffice with a dark theme).

I am using XUbuntu 8.04 with all upgraded packages until today (22/07/2008) on i386.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

The dark theme isn't going to be in the final version of intrepid due to numerous issues. This is also a duplicate bug so I am marking it as such.

Thanks,

Chris