[Ubuntu] Message bar is white, hard to read

[LogicalDash]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04. This problem occurs running JDarkRoom in both
Sun's Java VM and in OpenJDK. Both are Version 6.

The message bar at the bottom of the screen has a white background.
I'm thinking this should probably be black, since the text that
appears in the message bar is light green, like all the rest. I can
change that color by changing my GTK2 settings, in System->Preferences-
>Appearance; but I'm pretty sure that JDarkRoom should look like a
darkroom regardless of how I set my system colors.

[rammer]

On the JDarkRoom page there are instructions for getting rid of the
white background.
suppress.native.look.and.feel=true

if I remember correctly.

Rami

[LogicalDash]

That worked, although the instructions on the JDarkRoom page are a
tiny bit misleading. On my system (Ubuntu 9.04), there was no folder
called 'conf'; jdarkroom stored its properties in '~/.jdarkroom' by
default.

Someone should probably change the instructions to reflect this.

Oh, and it would be nice to have a checkbox in the program to disable
native look and feel. I think it should be the default.

[Duncan]

Hi LogicalDash,

Thanks for the feedback, I'll update the instructions.

The consequences of disabling native look and feel would be that the
default java look and feel would be used - which at last check didn't
work very well with the new settings system. I'm aware however that
the new settings screen has problems on some macs etc, so I've got a
code patch for the next release.

Having a just-turned-one baby daughter is soaking up most of my free
time, however!

Cheers,

Duncan.