Bug 272758

Summary:	Tooltip texts aren't readably under Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop
Product:	[Applications] kmymoney	Reporter:	Markus <markusd112>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	markusd112
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.5.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Markus 2011-05-08 07:47:33 UTC

Version:           4.5.3 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

All tooltip texts that appear if you stay some seconds with your mouse on an object, aren't readable: dark gray text on black background

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
start KMM4 under ubuntu 11.04 with the new Unity desktop and move your mouse e.g. on a transaction in the transaction list of the ledgers view

Actual Results:  
A tooltip text pops up and the text is printed in dark grey color on a black background, so it isn't readable any more.

Expected Results:  
Choose other colors

Comment 1 Alvaro Soliverez 2011-05-08 07:53:32 UTC

Please install SystemSettings and verify the KDE color settings.

Comment 2 Markus 2011-05-11 05:56:05 UTC

I have installed SystemSettings and have checked the color settings: there don't seems to be a problem (no setting of black text color on dark grey background e.g. for text-decoration--> hover).

It seems that KMM uses the backgroundcolor from the Unity scheme and black text color as default?!

Comment 3 Cristian Oneț 2011-05-11 07:06:36 UTC

KMyMoney definitely does not customize any tooltip color. It just relies on KDE+Qt to handle it's tooltips. There isn't really any tooltip code in there, believe me, other then setting the text contents of some tooltips.

So in cases like yours I would definitely say that it's a distribution/packaging/configuration problem. If I google for "KDE/Qt applications black tooltips in ubuntu" there are a bunch of results this is just one of them: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580266

And a previous discussion we had about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kmymoney/+bug/756082

Does any other KDE application have the right tooltips? For example the system settings application that you just installed is a KDE application, does it have readable tooltips?

Comment 4 Alvaro Soliverez 2011-05-11 12:10:52 UTC

The tooltips are way beyond our control. We can't set the color, as that's controlled by the toolkit, or in this case, the window manager.
It seems that Unity is not playing nicely with Qt. Please report it to Ubuntu.