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SWT widget issue on Debian Jessie [message #1707057]

Tue, 01 September 2015 21:39

Non Maskable

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2015

Junior Member

Hi. I have a simple SWT application with a TabFolder and a couple of TabItems. On Debian 7, the application looks and works fine, but the same application on Debian 8 has visually messed up TabItems. No folder graphic, but the selected item is underlined.

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One (more) odd thing, is that if I launch the application from within Eclipse Luna, it has the correct appearance.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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Re: SWT widget issue on Debian Jessie [message #1707304 is a reply to message #1707057]

Thu, 03 September 2015 15:04

Vlad Gheorghe

Messages: 127
Registered: May 2011

Senior Member

Hi,

It may be that that is the expected behaviour on the Debian 8 installation - it is probably how the Tabs are rendeded by the active GTK Theme.
Try to change the current GTK Theme to check if that's so -

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/x11/gtk-theme-switch
http://askubuntu.com/questions/361422/how-can-you-change-the-gtk-theme-and-window-decorations-separately-in-unity

Regards
Vlad

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Re: SWT widget issue on Debian Jessie [message #1707324 is a reply to message #1707304]

Thu, 03 September 2015 17:11

Non Maskable

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2015

Junior Member

It doesn't seem to be, as the control panels and other native applications (e.g. Settings->Appearance) all have a normal tab theme.

I think it has something to do with how SWT talks to GTK; apparently there are different versions and ways to interact with themed widgets even down to the minor release version level.

Eclipse Luna seems to be fine so there must be a way. It seems that Eclipse isn't just using the plain swt.jar file that is distributed for standalone applications.

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