Active and inactive tabs are the same colour

[Tony Houghton]

With the Ambiance or Radiance theme, in windows using a GtkNotebook the current tab is not highlighted to distinguish it from hidden tabs. In some apps you can just about see a faint line under the inactive tabs, but some apps, such as roxterm, don't use the border option, so it's impossible to tell which tab is selected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: light-themes 14.04+14.10.20141015-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 5 17:27:41 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-13 (174 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-themes
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (42 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Evan McIntire (mcintire-evan)]

Isn't this a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-themes/+bug/1399734?

[Tony Houghton (h-realh)]

@mcintire-evan This is 1399734. Did you mean to post that somewhere else?

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Patch taken from upstream commit https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?h=gnome-3-18&id=bbd0b277163fddf734d88d8827c01eb7c35362a3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "notebook-dont-let-keyboard-focus-enter-from-tab-label.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

This patch has nothing to do with the current bugreport.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

The patch comes from the attached upstream bug.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

It's fixed in gnome-terminal 3.18.3 in xenial.

[Miroslav Havrlent (miroslav.havrlent)]

It is NOT fixed in gnome-terminal 3.18.3.
Here's my fix for the Ambiant-MATE theme:

toor@ubuntu:/usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE/gtk-3.0$ cat gtk.css
TerminalWindow .notebook tab.top:active {
  font: bold;
  background-color: alpha(grey, 0.0);
}

TerminalWindow .notebook tab.top {
  background-color: alpha(grey, 0.4);
}
@import url("gtk-main.css");

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This appears to be fixed in Ubuntu 17.10, probably in 17.04 too. But not fixed in 16.04.