228590 - tooltips with gtk2 seems distorted as if memory garbage is all over them

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Danny Milosavljevic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.23  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031214 Firebird/0.7

With mozilla firebird 0.6 and 0.7 gtk2, all tooltips look distorted. Easiest 
seen by placing mouse on a toolbar button.

I know this is a very generic 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use firebird gtk2
2.make a tooltip (hint) show up, for example by hovering a toolbar item
3.see gibberish on tooltip

Actual Results:  
gibberish on tooltip, text can be read somehow

Expected Results:  
uniform background color on tooltip, text using another foreground color that 
the background

default theme, new installation...

Comment 1

[Danny Milosavljevic]

still there ...

Comment 2

[Danny Milosavljevic]

still there ... firefox 0.8

...

Comment 3

[Jared Stafford]

Attachment: screenshot demonstrating bug

All tooltips exibit this bug. Sometimes the garbage makes the text unreadable.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Worksforme with 20040429 Firefox linux build

Comment 5

[Danny Milosavljevic]

asa: With gtk2 too ?

I updated to 0.9.2 in hope it would help. Nope, still there. (maybe 0.9.2 was 
before 20040429 though?)

Hope you dont mind me reopening...

Comment 6

[Danny Milosavljevic]

also note that if it is hard to reproduce for you, I can program C and can put 
debugging messages here and there to find that, but I dont know the location of 
the tooltips drawing stuff in the source and dont feel like reading it all ;)

Comment 7

[Jared Stafford]

I switched to another GTK theme and the problem disappeared in all versions.
Could it possibly be a conflict between Firefox and the theme?

Comment 8

[Danny Milosavljevic]

yeah, seems that way.

The offender in my case was:

(in my home .gtkrc-2.0)
# Aqua fixup: 
style "gtk-tooltips-style" {
        bg[NORMAL] = "#ffffc0"
        fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
        engine "pixmap" {
                image {
                        function        = FLAT_BOX
                        detail          = "tooltip"
                }
        }
        bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "<none>"
}
 
widget "gtk-tooltips*" style "gtk-tooltips-style"

If I change that to
# Aqua fixup: 
style "gtk-tooltips-style" {
        bg[NORMAL] = "#ffffc0"
        fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
        bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "<none>"
}
 
widget "gtk-tooltips*" style "gtk-tooltips-style"

It works O_o

Comment 9

[Danny Milosavljevic]

also note that in some occassions you have to switch between two different
tooltips two or three times to make the bug show

Comment 10

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Attachment: gtkrc that breaks tooltips on mozilla (only!)

for reference, my gtkrc that caused all that mess.

Comment 11

[Danny Milosavljevic]

also note that it doesnt matter which gtk theme (at least I couldnt find a
single one that worked in this regard), if this custom gtkrc is used, it breaks

Comment 12

[Manfred Stienstra]

This happens when the gtk engine doesn't properly draw a background for the
tooltip widget. Neglecting to draw a background doesn't show up in normal gtk
applications presumably because gtk fills the background with the standard
background color before calling the engine.

Comment 13

[Robin Monks]

Moving to Core->Widget: Gtk

Comment 14

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 15

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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