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[Miklos Juhasz <932274@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, there are several issues with the Java Swing GtkTheme:

- menu bar picking up wrong colors
- dropdown menus and context menus have no border
- dropdown menus and context menus are missing dropdown-shadow
- menu separators are missing

In an ideal world this would be fixed in the JDK... but as a Java
developer I can only fix my app to make it look decent in Ubuntu 12.04
by

- setting the menu color explicitly if under Gtk Ambiance theme
- using heavy-weight popups so that they have border and dropdown-shadow
- explicitly setting the y thickness so that menu separators show up

All these workarounds can be examined e.g. in this source:
https://github.com/mjuhasz/BDSup2Sub/blob/2180016ff01de9c0a056f743387b90c2de11b2d4/src/main/java/bdsup2sub/gui/support/GuiUtils.java

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932274

Title:
  Regression: Unreadable menu bar with Ambiance theme in Java/Swing GTK
  L&F

Status in Light Themes:
  Invalid
Status in OpenJDK:
  New
Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi, I have a problem in netbeans (and other java applications) with
  Ambiance theme. The menu bar has a dark foreground color and the menu
  titles are unreadable. This problem didn't occur in Oneiric.

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