[MonoDevelop] Strange GUI Issues

["Andrés G. Aragoneses"]

Charles Mason wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using the latest SVN trunk and I am experiencing some strange GUI
> issues. These only seem to occur in Mono Develop (not other GTK Sharp
> apps). They occur with the current release as well as the SVN.  I have
> uploaded a screen shot to illustrate.
> 
> http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotbansheehalbanuy6.png
> 
> There are two separate issues in that screen shot.
> 
> The first is the greying of all the status bars and tabs in the middle
> of them. This only occurs when using the fairly popular Aurora GTK
> Theme engine (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438).
>  Its a very odd effect I haven't seen in any other app. It only
> happens with this theme, unfortunately it happens to be my favourite.
> Can anyone think of anything particular that Mono Develop does that
> might be causing this effect. Mono Develop remains functional and
> stable through out it just looks odd. This also happens if I run
> MonoDevelop via gksudo so it runs as root.
> 
> To illustrate the second issue I have taken another screen shot.
> 
> http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotoptionscb8.png
> 
> The second is the tool bar at the top of the main window and many of
> the label colours are wrong. This happens no matter which GTK theme I
> have and doesn't bare any relation to the colours in the Gnome
> Appearance Preferences. Again I am not getting this effect in any
> other GTK Sharp or native GTK app. I have noticed if I run Mono
> Develop as root it displays correctly, so its clearly something to do
> with my account.
> 
> Where is it getting these odd colours from? I have tried removing all
> the Mono develop config files I could and reinstalling to no avail.
> What I don't understand is why half the labels in that dialogue are
> white and half black. Surely if it were simply a wrong colours setting
> it would be the same colour for all the labels text.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas or suggestions for either of these issues ?
> 
> Charlie M


The first one seems to be a bug in the theme, and got no idea about the
2nd one, but if I were you I would try to create small testcases with
the issues and open bugs for them upstream.

Regards,

	Andrés

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