<Swing Dev> Questionable Rendering of Disabled Text

[Philip Race]

Yes these mailing lists strip attachements
So an in-line patch .. or send directly to one of us to host it for you 
on cr.openjdk.java.net.

-phil.

On 11/3/17, 12:34 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> 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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