Bug 543110

Summary: Eclipse content assist flyout shows unreadable dark on black despite using a light theme
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Harald Kirsch <pifpafpuf>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse
Version: 4.10   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Harald Kirsch CLA 2019-01-01 10:19:32 EST 
Created attachment 277038 [details]
Screen shot showing the problem of the black background

When using content-assist (CTRL-Space) in a Java source file and then stepping through to the Template Proposals, the list of templates is nicely black on white, whereas the additional information showing the expanded template that flies out to the side has a black background with unreadable foreground. See screenshot Eclipse-Content-Assist-Black.png.

Other additional information windows, like for Javadoc, are nicely black on white.

When I change 

    Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors > Basic > Information background color

the template information window stays black, but other information windows, like for Javadoc change their color.


This is on Linux Mint. 
% cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.2
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rafaela
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela"

which is using 3.10 of the gtk library.

% apt-cache show libgtk-3-0|grep Version:
Version: 3.10.8~8+qiana

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53981688/2954288
Comment 1 Holger Voormann CLA 2019-01-01 10:26:53 EST 
Also on Windows 10 the "Basic > Information background color" ("Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts") is not used for template proposals. For proposals other than template proposals, the "Information background color" will be used as expected.
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-12-22 12:45:06 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2023-02-04 04:00:54 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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