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Bug 682435 - Selection of any text yields a black highlight making the text unreadable
Selection of any text yields a black highlight making the text unreadable
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: .General
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 682321 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-22 08:16 UTC by Paul Menzel
Modified: 2014-07-10 04:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Unmodified screenshot showing black highlighting (160.12 KB, image/png)
2012-08-22 09:59 UTC, Russell Stuart 		Details
Evolution 3.4.4 using GTK+ 3.2 (175.01 KB, image/png)
2012-08-22 11:47 UTC, Matthew Barnes 		Details

Description Paul Menzel 2012-08-22 08:16:23 UTC 
Upgrading from Evolution 3.2.2 to 3.4.3 bug 671437 in GTK+ partly resurfaced.

I experienced bug 671437 too and the patch from the report was applied to the Debian package [1][2] and upgrading to these packages solved the issue for me.

Now it partly reappeared that it only happens when selecting text.

I am using the Awesome window manager [3].

Please advise if 671437 should be reopened or if this is an Evolution regression.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669694
[2] http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/gtk+3.0/3.4.2-3/073_transparent_colors.patch
[3] http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Comment 1 Russell Stuart 2012-08-22 09:03:29 UTC 
As reported in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682321#c5 my situation is identical to Paul's.
Comment 2 Paul Menzel 2012-08-22 09:39:42 UTC 
Russell, could you upload another screenshot of that problem depicting the current state of the problem? That would be awesome!
Comment 3 Russell Stuart 2012-08-22 09:59:31 UTC 
Created attachment 222123 [details]
Unmodified screenshot showing black highlighting
Comment 4 Russell Stuart 2012-08-22 10:03:28 UTC 
*** Bug 682321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2012-08-22 11:47:00 UTC 
Created attachment 222132 [details]
Evolution 3.4.4 using GTK+ 3.2

Here's a screen shot of Evolution 3.4.4 using GTK+ 3.2.  The highlight color is correct.  Reassigning.
Comment 6 Paul Menzel 2012-08-22 14:27:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> As reported in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682321#c5 my
> situation is identical to Paul's.

Note, that Russell is using Xfce 4.x.
Comment 7 Paul Menzel 2012-08-22 14:28:21 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=222132) [details]
> Evolution 3.4.4 using GTK+ 3.2
> 
> Here's a screen shot of Evolution 3.4.4 using GTK+ 3.2.  The highlight color is
> correct.  Reassigning.

Matthew, what window manager was used when taking that screenshot?
Comment 8 Matthew Barnes 2012-08-22 15:06:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Matthew, what window manager was used when taking that screenshot?

I was running GNOME 2.32, so metacity.
Comment 9 Paul Menzel 2012-08-22 20:11:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Matthew, what window manager was used when taking that screenshot?
> 
> I was running GNOME 2.32, so metacity.

With Evolution 3.4.3 or 3.4.4?

Additionally, could you please try with Xfce since as far as I know this bug neither happens with GTK+ 3.2 nor(?) GTK+ 3.4 when using GNOME, since that sets the system theme somehow.
Comment 10 Matthias Clasen 2014-07-10 04:08:00 UTC 
I don't think we'll figure this out at this point, 3.4 is firmly in the past.