GTK look and feel: a number of effects could be cosmetics problems : IDEA-35170

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Cosmetics
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Verified
Assignee	Oleg Shpynov
Subsystem	No subsystem
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Alexander Chernikov
5 years ago (03 Nov 2006 21:22)
Updated by Alexander Chernikov
15 months ago (29 Oct 2010 19:58)
Jira: IDEADEV-11619
(history, comments)

IDEA-35170 GTK look and feel: a number of effects could be cosmetics problems

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GTK look and feel is available on unix (ubuntu 6.06). The following specialities look like bugs of IDEA:

Menu items with submenus have no corresponding triangle sign, so user does not see have they submenus or not.
Toolbar areas, splitters of tool windows are dark-grey. Editor with all closed tabs has the same color. So, splitters like one between Project window and Editor pane have no appearance, only changing of mouse pointer shape tells user that splitter is below.
Trees are shown on white background, text in trees has ligth-grey background.
Some not editable comboboxes (see one for choosing look and feel in Settings / Appearance) have backgound color the same as containing panel, so combobox is "invisible".
"Floating" dialogs like "Go to class", "Go to / navigation bar" have transparent content panel.

Jesse Kuhnert

16 Jan 2007 08:16

5 years ago

I've seen similar issues. The most noticeable / obvious have been in the basic top level menus. Visually you can tell that they are not being rendered with GTK. When opening the menus most option text isn't rendered at all. (ie it's mostly a big empty area filled with whatever color the menu is supposed to be - sort of a brown color for me with ubuntu 6.x edgy eft)

This is really the only reason I haven't used intellij yet. I know it's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but if I'm going to spend what is the majority of my life (currently) looking at something I'm not going to be very forgiving.

I have a separate ubuntu box around for server type stuff, if it helps I can probably run a little vnc server or something if that is the only barrier.

Jesse Kuhnert

16 Jan 2007 08:21

5 years ago

ohh....Hadn't noticed before. I guess we can thank the geniuses at Sun for this one again. Not your fault, but still enough of a reason that I wouldn't use it.. :/

(happens immediately when clicking on the top-left "File" menu )
[ 89738] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest@6b5488,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1168921223563] on sun.awt.X11.XToolkit@81c868

java.lang.NullPointerException

…

java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKIconFactory$MenuArrowIcon.paintIcon(GTKIconFactory.java:348)
 at sun.swing.plaf.synth.SynthIcon.paintIcon(SynthIcon.java:87)
 at com.intellij.ui.plaf.beg.IdeaMenuUI.paint(IdeaMenuUI.java:186)
 at com.intellij.ui.plaf.beg.IdeaMenuUI.update(IdeaMenuUI.java:26)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(JComponent.java:758)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1022)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:859)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1031)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:859)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1031)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:859)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1031)
 at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:564)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:859)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paintToOffscreen(JComponent.java:5111)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paintDoubleBuffered(RepaintManager.java:1382)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paint(RepaintManager.java:1313)
 at javax.swing.BufferStrategyPaintManager.paint(BufferStrategyPaintManager.java:301)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paint(RepaintManager.java:1128)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1008)
 at java.awt.GraphicsCallback$PaintCallback.run(GraphicsCallback.java:21)
 at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runOneComponent(SunGraphicsCallback.java:60)
 at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runComponents(SunGraphicsCallback.java:97)
 at java.awt.Container.paint(Container.java:1797)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:734)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:679)
 at javax.swing.RepaintManager.seqPaintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:659)
 at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(SystemEventQueueUtilities.java:128)
 at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
 at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.b(IdeEventQueue.java:8)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.a(IdeEventQueue.java:72)
 at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:73)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
 at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)

[ 89816] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.4 Build #6148
[ 89816] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - JDK: 1.6.0_01-ea
[ 89816] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
[ 89817] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
[ 89817] ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - OS: Linux

Jesse Kuhnert

12 Apr 2007 00:37

4 years ago

Pretty pretty please fix it ? It's ~soo~ close to being working already. It's just these menus with icons that don't work right now. (well that's all I can see at least)

As of java -version:

java version "1.6.0_02-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_02-ea-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0_02-ea-b01, mixed mode)

Jed Wesley-Smith

26 Apr 2007 06:29

4 years ago

Build #6180. I see a few problems, unfortunately they have a pretty big impact. The Menus and Project structure use a horrible non anti-aliased font. Some menus, such as Version Control don't render anything until there is a mouseover.

Otherwise, the bits that work look fantastic. By far the best L&F for GTK. Nothing else has the super smooth anti-aliased fonts so that it gets to the level of polish of Eclipse.

Ahmed Shakil

04 May 2007 23:12

4 years ago

I am using Debian Etch and Idea build #6180. And this problem is really horrible. I am gladt to find that its already a logged bug. I am forced to use GTK look and feel since all the other L&Fs are horribly slow. I cannot even type or select text or even change tabs but with a lot of sluggishness.

Please fix this bug.

Haris

29 Aug 2007 22:41

4 years ago

Please fix the issue as soon as possible. Much appreciated!

Thanks,

Haris

Alexander Chernikov

10 Sep 2007 18:02

4 years ago

Finally I've run IDEA with JDK 6 and realized why this issue is so popular.
Guys, this one is created about cosmetics problems observed with JDK 5.
Critical error with JDK 6 is now reported in IDEA-40834.
Regards.

Alexander Chernikov

12 Oct 2007 19:16

4 years ago

IDEA-40834 is fixed in 7347.

Alexander Chernikov

12 Oct 2007 19:20

4 years ago

7347, JDK 1.6: Points 2, 5 or original description are avoided, points 1, 3, 4 still occurs.

Gustavo Hexsel

23 Jan 2008 22:07

4 years ago

Also reproducible on JRockit 6 on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta. Most issues seem not to happen on a dark gtk theme, except the top-level menus are invisible unless you click on them. The menus appear (albeit on bad colours) when you click or select them, so it could be the choice of colours. Also, no exceptions occur, but I get a bunch of GTK warnings:

(<unknown>:6324): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkButton to a GtkComboBoxEntry (need an instance of GtkEntry or of a subclass)

(<unknown>:6324): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed

(<unknown>:6324): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_box: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed

(the last one occurs a few dozen times)

Frank

01 Jul 2009 08:53

2 years ago

Still reproduceable with java 1.6.14 on idea 7 & 8 when using gtk SSlickness theme.
Will this bug some day be fixed? Many people say that using gtk look and feel on linux makes idea faster. And this issues is over 3 years old.
And it is nicer integrated in yout desktop look and feel.
Other java application like netbeans or tv browser show everything thing when using gtk look and feel (see attached screenshots)

Frank

01 Jul 2009 08:54

2 years ago

Idea menus

Frank

01 Jul 2009 08:57

2 years ago

Idea and other java apps

Oleg Shpynov

28 Oct 2010 11:59

15 months ago

All of the described problems are already fixed. Fix is already available in IDEA 10 EAP builds

Related Changes

Resolved Date

15 months ago (28 Oct 2010 11:59)

State

Open→ Obsolete

Alexander Chernikov

29 Oct 2010 19:58

15 months ago

98.248: fix confirmed.
My cases are fixed, will create new issues if necessary.

Related Changes

State

Obsolete→ Verified

Assignee

Oleg Shpynov (oleg_s)→ Oleg Shpynov

Subsystem

<lost change>→ No subsystem