<Swing Dev> Questionable Rendering of Disabled Text

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Michael.
It seems that the attached patch was removed from the email, can you 
please provide a link to it or inline in email.
Thank you.

On 03/11/2017 03:09, Michael D wrote:
> On 3 November 2017 at 21:07, Michael D <me at md-5.net> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Last couple of days I've been trying to root out this bug -
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1729558 which
>> has resulted in poor looking rendering on my machine.
>> It turns out that the cause of this behavior is that Swing tries to do
>> its own magic disabled item rendering by turning the text white and
>> shifting it a pixel in each direction. I have no doubt there was
>> probably a good reason for this, however the file has remained
>> unchanged since its initial import in 2007! (Maybe someone from Oracle
>> can find out more)
>> Removing this code (patch attached) makes disabled menu items render
>> correctly in both light and dark GTK themes. Its completely trivial,
>> but I've nonetheless provided the patch for context. There is also
>> some adjacent code that references a metacity theme called "blueprint"
>> that also seems pre 2007 era, but I've left that in as I have no idea
>> of its context.
>>
>> Appreciate if this change / bug could be reviewed & discussed. In the
>> meantime I will also forward it downstream to Ubuntu as this is where
>> I encountered it / affects my usage.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Michael


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Best regards, Sergey.