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Bug 685424 - Empathy wrong background color selection in kubuntu
Empathy wrong background color selection in kubuntu
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTextView
3.4.x
Other Linux
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-03 18:08 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2018-04-15 00:30 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bilal Shahid 2012-10-03 18:08:41 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059767
video is present in the downstream !

I am using empathy in kubuntu 12.04. When selecting text in empathy, either in the history or at the input, the text color is switched to white, but the background color stays also white. So you'll end up with white text color at white background. The text is marked correctly and you can copy it. I think empathy does in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals not consider the

[Colors:Selection]
BackgroundNormal=67,172,232

but stays with

[Colors:View]
BackgroundNormal=255,255,255

As a "workaround" you can change 

[Colors:View]
BackgroundNormal

to something different than white, but then your complete desktop is changing ...
Comment 1 Bilal Shahid 2012-10-03 18:09:28 UTC 
empathy version 3.4.2.3
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-10-04 07:26:20 UTC 
Are you experiencing this with other GTK+ apps? I don't think Emapthy is doing anything special here.
Comment 3 oli.borm 2012-10-05 12:15:58 UTC 
No. For example meld and gucharmap are working properly.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-10-05 12:42:19 UTC 
Actually it's a GtkTextView. Could you please test with gnome-dictionary by selecting the definition of a word?
Comment 5 oli.borm 2012-10-05 13:58:25 UTC 
I tested gnome-dictionary. The input line is not affected, but if I select the output, it's the same behaviour as with empathy (white background with white text).
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-10-08 07:27:23 UTC 
Right so that's a GtkTextView issue.
Comment 7 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-04-02 22:32:34 UTC 
It's probably a problem from the CSS theme.
Can you test with Adwaita if the problem still occurs?
Comment 8 oli.borm 2014-06-26 08:12:52 UTC 
No, I don't think that I can test it with GNOME Adwaita, because I'm using KDE as it was already stated in the description of the bug.
Comment 9 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 05:23:50 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are moving bugs to NEEDINFO if they haven't seen activity in more than a year. If this issue is still important to you and still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please reopen it and we will migrate it to gitlab.
Comment 10 Matthias Clasen 2018-04-15 00:30:54 UTC 
As announced a while ago, we are migrating to gitlab, and bugs that haven't seen activity in the last year or so will be not be migrated, but closed out in bugzilla.

If this bug is still relevant to you, you can open a new issue describing the symptoms and how to reproduce it with gtk 3.22.x or master in gitlab:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/new