Comment 13 for bug 554600

Would it be possible to get a statement of Ubuntu's view on this problem?

It is legitimate that you say, "we do not see it as our problem". After all, the choice of re-using OS Theme based colors is not done by Ubuntu but by eclipse...
But this one already make clear that the problem would then have to be fixed on Eclipse's and not on Ubuntu's.

In any case, I do believe, however, it is in everyone's best interests to have this problem solved.

I am certain that I am far from being the only person frustrated that Ubuntu has the sloppiest looking Eclipse Look & Feel of all OS distributions. At the end of they day ... we are talking about Eclipse, I think it is not even debatable that this IDE should be up there on your top priority list. It should actually be properly tested before any Ubuntu major release. It is after all the main IDE for java development, even if canonical focus more on C++, perl and python.

If you state this is clearly an Eclipse only problem, I shall forward back your feedback to the Eclipse thread I posted above. I hope they will accept the feedback and tune the eclipse classic theme to work on Ubuntu, e.g. by not using OS based colors on widgets and other elements.

Many thanks for your understanding and feedback.