GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 759260
[Adwaita:dark] menus on GtkTreeView barely visible because menu shadows are understated
Last modified: 2015-12-11 19:14:03 UTC
In Adwaita:light theme, menus can easily be distinguished from whatever they are drawn on. Menus have clearly visible dark shadows. In Adwaita:dark theme menus have the same dark shadows as in Adwaita:light. Since the background those shadows are drawn upon is dark too, those shadows can barely be recognized. Especially with menus drawn over GtkTreeViews or GtkTextViews those shadows are barely visible and thus borders can barely be recognized. When looking at CSD menus this is just a minor issue since their background color is lighter so there is a visible contrast between menu and menu border.
True, the menus are hard to see on the dark variant, I'd rather change make menus background the same color of popovers though.
Thanks for reporting, fixed in both master branch and 3.18 branch
I don't think this should have been changed in the 3.18 branch; we don't want menu colors to change on users mid-release (at least not with the light theme).
Considering that menus are pretty much a marginal widget nowadays and we're speaking about going from a white to a light gray BG, I don't consider this a big change, I can revert anyway if you really think it's a problem.
Ouch, I didn't consider combobox entries or similar widgets, Michael you're right, restricting the change to dark variant, where it's badly needed.