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Bug 168716

Summary:	[CSS] Menu bar background/foreground requirement for SWT
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Chris Gross <cgross>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	digga1404, elias, gheorghe, iloncar.ml, jfr, kai.toedter, Lars.Vogel, pwebster, pyvesdev, remy.suen, tcdmail, tom.schindl, wayne.beaton
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	308931

Description Chris Gross

2006-12-20 11:05:56 EST

In order to create really attractive UIs, I've increasingly been hampered by the standard menubar colors.  I'd like to be able to have setBackground/setForeground on Menu (at least for menu bars).  I understand that this is unlikely to happen because some OSes wont do this (i.e. Mac).  It could be a hint, or another option is for the menubar to inherit the colors from the parent shell.  

This is really high on my list of things that prevent really great UIs.

Comment 1 Chris Gross

2006-12-20 14:37:04 EST

oops meant for that to go to SWT originally.

Comment 2 Grant Gayed

2006-12-21 15:11:15 EST

Surprisingly I couldn't find a previous request for this.  SN do you know which platforms allow the menu bar colour to be set?

Comment 3 Steve Northover

2006-12-21 17:23:46 EST

I have a hack of this for Windows.  On the other platforms (except the Mac), a menu bar is an operating system control so it should be doable.

Comment 4 Chris Gross

2006-12-21 18:01:07 EST

It would be very cool to get this into 3.3.  I know you guys have tons going on.

Comment 5 Ivica Loncar

2012-05-14 07:14:37 EDT

I’m not sure what we (end users) can do (except giving votes) to this kind of bugs.

I wouldn’t say that there isn’t enough interest for this feature. It’s just sad state that people learn to live with this kind of limitations at the core of the platform. At first we watch the bug, then we see how it gets postponed from milestone to milestone, then it’s too late to implement this kind of a feature before next major eclipse release, then we start working on other projects (and leave eclipse land). Two or three years later somebody mentions SWT and we remember our favorite bug and it’s still there, open, unresolved.

I believe this one is not trivial to fix (obviously) but I also believe that this issue deserves mentioning. I believe that it will get more visibility when people start using E4.

Comment 6 Lars Vogel

2014-03-25 07:45:36 EDT

*** Bug 264531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Hans Lotzke

2015-03-20 03:39:34 EDT

This ugly eye cancer Windows UI-Theme made me using V$ instead of eclipse.

Comment 8 Lars Vogel

2020-05-28 11:20:16 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 560358 ***