Bug#842443: abiword under XFCE4 displays all documents as black on black

Peter Chubb

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Oct 29, 2016, 6:00:02 AM10/29/16

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Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Every time I open a word document in ABIWord it displays as black on
black, and so is unreadable. Clicking anywhere on the page briefly
shows the text, but only for a fraction of a second.

In the dialogs, the background for the pages is white, as I expect,
but it is displayed as black.

This makes abiword unusable for me.

Libreoffice correctly displays the same documents.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-rc2+ (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii abiword-common 3.0.2-1
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.3
ii libabiword-3.0 3.0.2-1
ii libc6 2.24-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.12-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-1
ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-9
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.3-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.1-1
ii libgnutls30 3.5.5-2
ii libgoffice-0.10-10 0.10.32-1
ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.40-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii libloudmouth1-0 1.5.3-2
ii libots0 0.5.0-2.3
ii libpng16-16 1.6.25-2
ii librdf0 1.0.17-1+b1
ii libreadline7 7.0-1
ii librevenge-0.0-0 0.0.4-6
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-1
ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-9
ii libtelepathy-glib0 0.24.1-1.1
ii libtidy5 1:5.2.0-2
ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-10.5+b1
ii libwpd-0.10-10 0.10.1-5
ii libwpg-0.3-3 0.3.1-3
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii abiword-plugin-grammar 3.0.2-1
ii aspell-en [aspell-dictionary] 2016.06.26-0-0.1
ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-2
ii poppler-utils 0.44.0-3

abiword suggests no packages.

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Jeremy Bicha

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Oct 29, 2016, 11:00:02 AM10/29/16

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On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Peter Chubb
<peter...@data61.csiro.au> wrote:
> Every time I open a word document in ABIWord it displays as black on
> black, and so is unreadable. Clicking anywhere on the page briefly
> shows the text, but only for a fraction of a second.

What GTK+ theme are you using?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Peter...@data61.csiro.au

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Oct 30, 2016, 5:30:02 PM10/30/16

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>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> writes:

Jeremy> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Peter Chubb

Jeremy> <peter...@data61.csiro.au> wrote:
>> Every time I open a word document in ABIWord it displays as black
>> on black, and so is unreadable. Clicking anywhere on the page
>> briefly shows the text, but only for a fraction of a second.

Jeremy> What GTK+ theme are you using?

`Industrial' is the name of the theme. But changing it to the
default `adwaita' maks no difference.

I *do* see warnings on the console that could be relevant:
Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_render_background: assertion 'GTK_IS_STYLE_CONTEXT (context)' failed
Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_render_frame: assertion 'GTK_IS_STYLE_CONTEXT (context)' failed
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Jeremy Bicha

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Oct 30, 2016, 7:50:02 PM10/30/16

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Control: retitle -1 abiword displays documents as black on black with GTK 3.22
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13815

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:10 PM, <Peter...@data61.csiro.au> wrote:
> `Industrial' is the name of the theme. But changing it to the
> default `adwaita' maks no difference.

Ok, I can confirm that this broke with the update to GTK+ 3.22.
Abiword looks fine with GTK+ 3.20 but is unusuable with 3.22.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha