[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: half a button is not a button

[Billy Biggs <bbiggs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bert van Ulft wrote:
> Hey people,
>
> I recently installed eclipse 3.0.1 on my Linux workstation. It seems to 
> be working properly, but the buttons only show half the text (see 
> attachment). I have the same problem on both my computers (home and 
> work, both running the KDE desktop at SUSE 9.x).
> Is anyone familiar with this problem? And even better do you know the 
> solution?

  This problem occurs because you are using GTK+ 2.4.3 or newer, and
your GTK+ theme is trying to add a lot of padding around buttons, which
is conflicting with some button sizing policy in Eclipse.  Possible
fixes are:

  1. Upgrade to 3.1 where the problem is fixed in Eclipse.
  2. Use a different GTK+ theme engine.  The default engine should
     work fine.  Try running "gnome-theme-manager" to change it.
  3. Downgrade your version of GTK+ (difficult).

  -Billy