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Bug 199361

Summary:	In GTK platform, Display.getHighContrast() always return false, even if it is high contrast mode.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Hui Li <lihuibj>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Bogdan Gheorghe <gheorghe>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ericwill, snorthov
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description Hui Li

2007-08-09 02:04:53 EDT

Build ID: M20060629-1905

Steps To Reproduce:
I want to check if it is highcontrast mode in gtk platform, but Display.getHighContrast() always return false, even if it is high contrast mode.
The codes of Display.getHighContrast() in gtk:
public boolean getHighContrast()
{
	checkDevice();
	return false;
}

More information:

Comment 1 Steve Northover

2007-08-09 18:15:42 EDT

GTK has not concept of high contrast mode.  Instead, the user picks a theme that has high contrast.

Comment 2 Steve Northover

2007-08-09 18:17:12 EDT

We WONTFIX this.  The only thing I can think of is to query theme names and check for a string match.  This won't work when the user has a custom theme that is based on a high contrast one.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2012-11-01 10:54:30 EDT

Bogdan, is this still the case?

PW

Comment 4 Eric Williams

2018-05-14 14:48:45 EDT

As mentioned in comment 1, this is totally OS/theme dependent.