Bug 24002

Running Openbox with an updated Cauldron and I don't see this issue. Have tried with all the available themes and the text is always visible to me.

This is my main systen, real HW, upgraded from mga6.

Will now try in a VM to see if I'm able to reproduce.

Cheers,
Stig

CC: (none) => smelror

Have just installed Cinnamon in Cauldron with netinstall iso, opened GIMP and could not reproduce this issue.

Many thanks Stig. I have now found situations where it works and other
situations where it does not. Have you tried to boot the M7 x86_64 Beta 1
Plasma Live-DVD in a Vbox Client?

Ok, something fishy going on here!!!!!!!!

Open the above Live-DVD iso in a Vbox client. Do nothing to anything
except open Gimp and start a new image. Lets say 1280x720.
Draw some simple graphics on the image and then save it to Pictures
as anything. my_test.xcf

Close Gimp then open it again, open my_test.xcf

Then attempt to change the name and save it.
I bet it goes blank.

On a real hardware install, on this platform right from the
get go it happens all the time:


Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell Quad-Core 3.2GHz LGA 115
Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H LGA 1150 Intel B85 chipset
Integrated Graphics Processor - Intel HD Graphics support
Audito chipset - Realtek ALC892, 7.1 channels
Corsair Vengeance 8GB ( 2 x 4GB ) 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600

I'm still slowly going through all the apps I use and
have not seen this problem with other apps.

Assigning to the registered maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: (none) => gimp
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Works fine in mageia v7 x86-64 in plasma5.

I saw this sometime in the last few days, but it definitely wasn't with The Gimp. I just loaded The Gimp, and it was using this hideous dark, dark theme that trust me, I would have remembered. 

It might have been Firefox, but I just don't remember for sure. The maddening thing is, I can't make it do it now.

One thing I do remember: if I clicked on the empty line where the file name belonged, it appeared.

CC: (none) => andrewsfarm

(In reply to Thomas Andrews from comment #8)

> I saw this sometime in the last few days.....


Many many thanks. This is absolutely driving me crazy. So many people are not seeing it and I'm seeing it everywhere. Every M7 platform I run on Gimp has this "and it was using this hideous dark, dark theme that trust me, I would have remembered". I've tried all the themes and nothing seems to change it.

I'll try M7 Gimp in Mate and see if it's there. Keep tinkering. We'll find it.

The most solid easily reproducible platform is the M7 Plasma x86_64 Live-DVD running in a Vbox client. Everyone should be able to reproduce that.

Ok, a little bit of a break through here.

Using only the M7 Live-DVD's Beta 1 in a Vbox client on
the platform described in Comment 4.

The four released M7 Beta 1 isos and the results:

Xfce-i586       Live-DVD    Gimp works just fine every time
Xfce-x86_64     Live-DVD    Gimp works just fine every time
Gnome-x86_64    Live-DVD    Gimp works just fine every time
Plasma-x86_64   Live-DVD    Text field fails every time

Slightly off-topic for this bug, but...

With regard to the "hideous dark, dark theme," it seems that's by design. According to https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-introduction-whats-new.html

" One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the environment and shift the focus towards content."

It doesn't work. If anything, it draws my attention AWAY from the content. But maybe that's just me.

"There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP: Dark (default), Gray, Light, and System. Icons are now separate from themes, and we maintain both color and symbolic icons, so you can configure GIMP to have System theme with color icons if you prefer the old look."

I DO prefer the old look, and am making my theme adjustments accordingly.

I'm also opening a new package request bug, asking for a set of gimp-help packages for version 2.10. Our current ones are all for 2.8.2, making them wholly inadequate.

(In reply to Thomas Andrews from comment #11)

> With regard to the "hideous dark, dark theme," it seems that's by design.
> According to https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-introduction-whats-new.html
> 
> " One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and
> symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the
> environment and shift the focus towards content."
> 
> It doesn't work. If anything, it draws my attention AWAY from the content.
> But maybe that's just me.

Well there's our problem. There are 4 selectable Theme's. They are:

Dark
Gray
Light
System

The default is Dark and when Gimp is in that Theme text will disappear from
the fields. Select either of the other 3 themes and field text is fine.
It's a Gimp bug and we'll have to put a note in the release notes not to
use the Dark theme in Gimp. System Theme is the same as the System and that's
what I will use from now on. Some of the icons in the Gimp workspace are hard
too see in all four Themes.

(In reply to William Kenney from comment #12)

> 
> Well there's our problem. There are 4 selectable Theme's. They are:
> 
> Dark
> Gray
> Light
> System
> 
> The default is Dark and when Gimp is in that Theme text will disappear from
> the fields. Select either of the other 3 themes and field text is fine.
> It's a Gimp bug and we'll have to put a note in the release notes not to
> use the Dark theme in Gimp. System Theme is the same as the System and that's
> what I will use from now on. Some of the icons in the Gimp workspace are hard
> too see in all four Themes.

Try one of the other icon themes, a different setting. "Color" and "Legacy" are both much more visible on my machine, about like the old look.

This is no longer a problem. Setting this to "RESOLVED"

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED