GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 552879
Embedded Terminal plugin does not use colors from UI theme
Last modified: 2019-03-23 20:59:49 UTC
Please describe the problem: The embedded terminal plugin for gedit seems to have its white background and black foreground colors hard set. This creates inconsistencies in Gedit's UI. For instance, I am using the Gtk theme "clearklooks-darknice" which makes text boxes a dark grey color with a lighter text. The embedded terminal in gedit stands out unnecessarily because it doesn't follow my GTK theme. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install and use the "Clearlooks-darknice" theme from gnome-look.org or some other theme with non-white textboxes. 2. install gedit-plugins an enable the embedded terminal. 3. open gedit. The terminal is white with black text, unlike any other textbox on the system. Actual results: The colors in gedit's embedded terminal are inconistent with my system-wide UI settings. Expected results: The colors in gedit's embedded terminal should be consistent with other textboxes on my system. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
The terminal plugins uses the color specified for the gnome-terminal since it wants to look as similar as possible as a normal terminal, just embedded in gedit. If you adjust your gnome-terminal colors, gedit's terminal will pick em up.
I had gnome-terminal set to "Use colors from system theme", which used my GTK theme just fine (I'm using Xfce4). However, the embedded terminal was using the colors that gnome-terminal would have been using if I had hadn't had "Use colors from system theme" checked. When I unchecked that box, I was able to change the colors that ther embedded terminal used. So, as a workaround thats good. I'm not sure if this affects gnome users, but it might be worth confirming if gedit's embedded terminal uses the system theme if gnome-terminal is also set to use the system theme from within the gnome desktop environment. Thanks!