some dialogs in rhythmbox use tooltip's background color and are unreadable

[Krzysztof Klimonda]

Binary package hint: light-themes

Rhythmbox uses GeditMessageArea which is old, custom widget (I guess from gedit ;) ) replaced in the recent GTK+ by GtkInfoBar. It doesn't support changing urgency of the message and uses background color which is the same as the one used in tooltips. On the new Ubuntu themes the background color for tooltips is aubergine so it is used by the rhythmbox - the effect is pretty bad as can be seen on the attached screenshot.
Now it may be that the GeditMessageArea should be fixed to either don't get color from tooltip or to change font color based on the theme - I'm not sure though so the bug is reported against both packages for now.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c796df2c03d28b45a22c8d1850f0e643
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Wed Mar 10 04:17:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100201)
Package: light-themes 0.1.5.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.24-generic-pae
SourcePackage: light-themes
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic-pae i686

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

Obviously actually attaching a screenshot may help

[Sonny (aadityabhatia)]

I'm facing the same issue with auto-completion menu in Eclipse, and in several other places. I was able to get around it by setting the tooltip background to a light color and foreground to black.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rhythmbox - 0.12.8git20100622-0ubuntu1

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rhythmbox (0.12.8git20100622-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New git version:
    - deal with gstreamer redirect, fix mms stream issues (lp: #370860)
    - fix installation path for 256x256 app icon (lp: #595950)
    - use gtkinfobar which fixes some theming issues (lp: #535490)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:12:10 +0200

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Won't Fix for Lucid updates are primarily for security-related updates.

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