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Bug 467735 - [dark theme] Selected text in form-based editors hard to read
Summary: [dark theme] Selected text in form-based editors hard to read
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2015-05-20 12:13 EDT by Andreas Sewe CLA
Modified: 2020-11-30 06:56 EST (History)
3 users (show)

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The PDE manifest form-based editor with text selection (29.78 KB, image/png)
2015-05-20 12:13 EDT, Andreas Sewe CLA 		no flags Details
image: selected text is readable in Eclipse Neon (27.79 KB, image/png)
2016-07-08 09:27 EDT, Patrik Suzzi CLA 		no flags Details
image: selected text looks bad in Eclipse Neon (71.76 KB, image/png)
2016-07-08 09:40 EDT, Patrik Suzzi CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Andreas Sewe CLA 2015-05-20 12:13:16 EDT 
Created attachment 253603 [details]
The PDE manifest form-based editor with text selection

Just noticed this when opening a MANIFEST.MF file with PDE's form-based editor. The pre-selected "ID" field is very hard to read using the dark them (see the attached screenshot).

Tested with Mars RC1.
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-07-08 09:27:59 EDT 
Created attachment 262990 [details]
image: selected text is readable in Eclipse Neon

Fixed in Neon, closed as fixed.
Comment 2 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-07-08 09:40:11 EDT 
Created attachment 262991 [details]
image: selected text looks bad in Eclipse Neon

Ergo, 

I can reproduce the issue in Eclipse Neon under Mac OS

The previous image was taken under Linux Ubuntu. 


details:
Eclipse SDK
Version: Neon (4.6)
Build id: I20160606-1100
Comment 3 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-07-08 09:41:33 EDT 
see above
Comment 4 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2020-04-13 09:07:45 EDT 
I'm unable to reproduce this with Eclipse 4.15 on macOS 10.15. The selection background color is a darker blue now.
Comment 5 Lars Vogel CLA 2020-11-30 06:56:04 EST 
(In reply to Lakshmi P Shanmugam from comment #4)
> I'm unable to reproduce this with Eclipse 4.15 on macOS 10.15. The selection
> background color is a darker blue now.

Looks good on Ubuntu also with latest release.