Unreadable hint in Remote Desktop Preferences

There is yet an open bug for vino: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588784
I'm unable to link it here using "Also affects project" :(

Sorry, there was a spurious gnome-screenshot window in previous screenshot.

It presently takes the the tooltip_bg color. I'm trying to come up with a workaround. The only solution I see is lightening the tooltip_bg color somewhat.

Maybe there is another way to workaround it. Here [1] is the code related to the vino message box area widget. It seems the widget itself is named "gtk-tooltip".

GtkRc should allow you to (see [2]) to apply a custom style to a specific widget in a specific application. Something like the following should work.

  style "vino-message-area-fix"
  {
    ## insert here proper color
  }

  widget "vino.gtk-tooltip" style "vino-message-area-fix"

Of course it's totally untested and needs more investigation.

[1] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/390461/
[2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes#widget_matches

Vino appears to use the bg colour set for the tooltips but not the fg colour. Sounds like a bug in gtk/vino to me.

Kenneth,

Even if the application uses the correct @tooltip_fg_color, the application may still look odd due to the new themes using such a dark purple colour for the tooltip background. The author chose that colour with the impression that tooltips always using a light background colour (which is almost always the case, except for dark themes).

I'm attaching a patch against vino for consideration, that merely removes the use of the "gtk-tooltip" type in the code (note that the author specifically refers to it as a hack ;)).

Added the bug watch of the gnome's bugs tracker.

Uploaded, will hit lucid after beta-2 release.

This bug was fixed in the package vino - 2.28.2-0ubuntu2

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vino (2.28.2-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Add 03_remove_tooltip_bg.patch: Remove "gtk-tooltip" style from
    preferences dialog, which causes unreadable text with some themes. This is
    a quick workaround until the widget is properly redesigned to be a
    GtkInfoBar. Thanks to Conn O Griofa for the patch! (LP: #533520)
  * debian/control.in: Add missing Vcs-Bzr:.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:29 +0200