[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Popup menus in KDE

[Billy Biggs <bbiggs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Malcolm Ryan wrote:
> I am running eclipse 3.1RC3 (GTK build) under Linux (Debian) using Sun 
> JDK (build 1.5.0_01-b08).  I've recently switched window managers and 
> started using KDE. For some reason this has meant that the popup 
> auto-completion menus in eclipse are broken. The currently selected item 
> is no longer highlighted, making selection rather difficult. The motif 
> build does not have this problem, but is (imho) somewhat uglier, and I'd 
> rather not use it. (They grey background on the editor is particularly 
> annoying)

  Uncheck the "apply colours to GTK application" checkbox in your KDE
settings.  This is an old bug in KDE where a list without focus has an
invisible selection in the set of colours they advertise to GTK+ apps.
It is fixed in newer versions of KDE.

  -Billy