Bug 368208

Summary: Unreadable tooltips on GTK+ 2 applications
Product: [Plasma] Breeze Reporter: KDE Neon user <emailmeat>
Component: gtk themeAssignee: scionicspectre
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bhush94, bugseforuns, plasma-bugs, robby.engelmann
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.7.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description KDE Neon user 2016-09-03 19:14:13 UTC
I'm not sure what "product" to report this to because it affects any theme, not just Breeze.

Tooltips are unreadable on GTK+2 applications by default. You can test it with MComix (available on the Ubuntu repositories).

I tested different combinations of Plasma themes and GTK application styles. I also unchecked "Apply colors to non-QT applications" on the Color settings. The problem still persisted.

The only solution I've found to this problem is commenting out these lines in ~/.config/gtkrc-2.0 : 

widget "gtk-tooltip" style "ToolTip"
widget "gtk-tooltips" style "ToolTip"

Adding # before these lines make the applications use the default tooltips of my current KDE Plasma theme.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Robby Engelmann 2016-09-19 13:57:44 UTC
duplicate of 355540
Comment 2 Patrick Silva 2017-11-18 14:11:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 355540 ***