<Swing Dev> RFR: 8251377: [macos11] JTabbedPane selected tab text is barely legible [v4]

[Phil Race]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:41:18 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> So why would this API return the wrong colour ?
>> Sounds like we need to re-cap the alternatives and the pros and cons along with some explanation
>> And do it before opening the 16 PR.
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>> So why would this API return the wrong colour ?
> 
> That method used in the last version returns the color which is not the color of the tabpane. It is a similar color in some cases, but not always.

So I think we need to hard code the most accurate colour we can and yet somehow take into account dark mode to the same extent we are doing with other components.
I can imagine a clever scheme which tries to derive something that is at least a reasonable contrast - we've done
with GTK3 but at least let's get a fix for what the problem is today.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1182