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Bug 688285 - tooltips difficult to read in eclipse
tooltips difficult to read in eclipse
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-themes-standard
Classification: Core
Component: Adwaita GTK3 theme
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-themes-standard-maint
gnome-themes-standard-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-13 21:51 UTC by Otto Allmendinger
Modified: 2012-11-26 23:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Tooltip appearing when hovering over a Java type in code window (47.95 KB, image/png)
2012-11-13 21:52 UTC, Otto Allmendinger 		Details

Description Otto Allmendinger 2012-11-13 21:51:31 UTC 
The dark tooltip background color makes it difficult to read some eclipse tooltips  that include rich text like blue links and code (see attachment). 

My current workaround commenting out the line 

#widget "gtk-tooltip*"  style "tooltips"

in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

The Eclipse project thinks it is fair to assume the background color is bright and refuses to provide an option to set the tooltip background color: 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=381010
Comment 1 Otto Allmendinger 2012-11-13 21:52:56 UTC 
Created attachment 228936 [details]
Tooltip appearing when hovering over a Java type in code window
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-24 18:20:35 UTC 
Thanks for the report, Eclipse is not the easiest application to theme.
I think readability on those help tooltips are important enough to warrant a special case; I pushed a patch that changes them to use a light gray background with black text instead.
Comment 3 Otto Allmendinger 2012-11-26 23:32:03 UTC 
Thanks! This kind of attention to detail is what makes Gnome rock :-)