This seems to be an issue in other apps (e.g.: meld) when running KDE with the Oxygen theme propagated to GTK (but the other available GTK themes change firefox/thunderbird/etc controls, so I want to stick to the oxygen theme)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk2-engines-oxygen in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/941989 Title: wrong textcolor in tooltip of gtk apps Status in gtk2-engines-oxygen package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: i have set my tooltips background to black, tooltip text to white. after enabling it works for gtk apps. now i restart my computer. after this, in gtk apps, the tooltips are a black background with black text. recreate: 1. open systemsettings color prefs 2. set tooltip background to black, tooltip text to white 3. restart computer 4. Open a gtk app like inkscape, chromium and point your mousecursor to a toolbar element what you get: a black tooltip with black text what it should be black tooltip with white text workaround: delete ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 ~/.kde/share/config/gtkrc ~/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 and (re)start the gtk app ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gtk2-engines-oxygen 1.2.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Feb 27 16:01:27 2012 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh SourcePackage: gtk2-engines-oxygen UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk2-engines-oxygen/+bug/941989/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

