Panel buttons have dark text on dark bg (GNOME fallback / Ambiance theme)

Java applications also have a similiar issue with their menus. See Bug #932274.

Yes, default Ambiance theme looks ugly in GNOME 3 "Classic" mode.

light-themes 0.1.8.30-0ubuntu3
Ubuntu precise (development branch) 12.04 Beta 1

light-themes (0.1.8.31-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot
    - Set the background-color for the GtkDrawingArea for notebook (LP: #922516)
    - contact info tooltips not readable in empathy (LP: #929651)
    - Ambiance/Radiance Nautilus Sidepane Invisible Drag & Drop File
      Selection (LP: #945014)
    - gnome-panel: fixed low-contrast labels in window list (LP: #828392)
    - gnome-panel: fixed gradient range for Ambiance
    - gnome-panel: fix cropped icons in bottom panel (LP: #926487)
    - gnome-panel: fix border artifact around applet frames (LP: #920843)
    - gnome-panel: theming for separator (LP: #945644)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:08:44 -0400

If the bright white window buttons should be the fix, this is a bit unsatisfying. The panel button design in general should be fit the rest of the theme.

This is now the case for radiance, but not for ambiance.

For reference the layout should minic the old GNOME 2 Ambiance design.

Also the start menu text is a bit to dark and should fit the color of the rest of the menu items.

marcus.moeller,
1) does it happen when you log into "GNOME Classic (no effects)" session?
("Gnome Classic" uses Compiz, so it becomes even more buggy).
2) you can change the bug status from "Fix Released" to smth. else, if you wish.

Thanks for the tip. In Fallback session, buttons are now displayed as expected. So my suggestion is to either fix the rendering in the version which uses Compiz, or to remove the Compiz session completly, renaming the fallback session to classic, afterwards.

I don't understand how Compiz could affect the GNOME Panel button's rendering, but if you see the problem again, feel free to reopen this bug.

Re-opened the bug as the problem still exists in Compiz mode (see screenshot I have attached in #6)

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Sometimes happens in compiz-less mode too.

This specific issue should be fixed now.

Sorry, I'm wrong -- not yet. But Launchpad won't let me reopen this bug...

Fitoschido, perhaps we should wait for Marcus Moeller at least :)

The bug, as described by Marcus Moeller in post #6, is still present as of now. (gnome fallback with effects)

This is a pretty annoying bug. Can anyone provide a temporary workaround until this is fixed?

I will mark thos bug as "Fix Released" again, as the original problem is solved. The issue with the window buttons is being tracked in the bug report 981289, which is "Fix Commited" so we'll be happy very soon!