Bug#249999: libgtk2.0-0: abiword fails to highlight text with gtk 2.4

[Philip Armstrong]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:35:24PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:22, Philip Armstrong wrote:
> > Package: libgtk2.0-0
> > Version: 2.4.0-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: experimental
> > 
> > I've installed gnome from experimental & abiword is no longer able to
> > hightlight text (ie click & drag over some text -- I expect the text
> > to be highlighted with inverse video). The code still works -- you can
> > cut and paste the 'invisibly' highlighted text, but no visible change
> > occurs onscreen.
> 
> I can't reproduce this, neither with abiword-gnome from testing nor with
> that from sid. Have you tried several themes?

OK, it doesn't happen with gnome as the desktop, but does for another
user who uses KDE. Some kind of KDE interaction then...

Maybe KDE is setting the text highlight colours to be the same as the
normal ones? I'll see if I can dig anything out.

Phil

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