Bug 368208

Summary:	Unreadable tooltips on GTK+ 2 applications
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	KDE Neon user <emailmeat>
Component:	gtk theme	Assignee:	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
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

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 ***