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Toolbar has a dark background in GTK3 in Ubuntu

Bug #1562513 reported by Alexey Kulik
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
LibreOffice
Won't Fix
Medium
ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When LO is launched with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3, the toolbar panel has a dark background making icons of styles like Sifr or Breeze almost invisible.

Ubuntu 15.10 x64
LibreOffice 5.1.1.2 (1:5.1.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~wily0) installed from ppa:libreoffice/ppa

See also Bug #1527053 on LibreOffice GTK3-related issues.

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Tags: gtk3 ui
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In , Drlobraf (drlobraf) wrote :

Created attachment 123888
Screenshot of LO gtk3 with dark toolbar in Ubuntu 15.10

When LO is launched with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3, the toolbar panel has a dark background making icons of styles like Sifr or Breeze almost invisible.

Alexey Kulik (doctor-rover)
tags: added: ui
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Alexey Kulik (doctor-rover) wrote :
description: updated
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In , Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

And why is this a LibreOffice problem? That is the way the Ambiance theme was designed.

affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu)
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in df-libreoffice:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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andreas (andreas-demey) wrote :

temporay fix:

sudo apt purge libreoffice-gtk3

found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/464j25/libreoffice_updated_to_51_for_me_today_is_it/

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Jason Benjamin (red-hax0r) wrote :

LibreOffice is written using Swing and there are two plugins: one for gtk2 and one for gtk3. I've noticed that no matter what icon set is used the gtk3 theme is too dark. In other places like in the configuration dialogues the text is only slightly brighter than the button background and is virtually unreadable.

It would be nice if LibreOffice were written using SWT by Eclipse instead so that it wraps the native system libraries of gtk2/3.

Also I sometimes wonder if the Ubuntu theme system is due in for an overhaul. I've tried Ubuntu with alternative themes (the ones I thought recommended) and they don't even look right on Ubuntu.

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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote :

@Jason: Please refain from reporting hearsay. LibreOffice neither uses Swing or SWT.

Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
Alexey Kulik (doctor-rover)
tags: added: gtk3
Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
assignee: Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) → nobody
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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