Dark themes don't work well with highlighted current line in gedit

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtksourceview/issues/29
seems related as subsequent testing shows other dark themes
affect gedit's usability when the current line is
set to be highlighted.

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

Interesting that I didn't see this in eoan, but did once upgrading to focal. appears the "Highlight current line" option default changed to true maybe?

The same issue happens with other applications too. It's not just gedit.

Which other applications?

I've attached a screen shot from a program called Ghidra. It is a Java application and so it may be that it is a different issue. But it is using the GTK theme and the colours look the same as gedit.

Is the problem reproducible with adwaita-dark?

Yes, just tested both applications with Adwaita-dark.

Both applications are fine with standard Yaru and Adwaita.

As reported in the upstream ticket, the "Classic" gedit colorscheme does not fit well with dark theme, both Yaru and Adwaita, but there are others to choose.

Really old bug, and misleading descriptions/comments.
The issue has a solution under a correct bug description:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtksourceview4/+bug/1887311

Coci,

9 months is not old. And you should be able to change the title/description of this bug if you can think of something better.

My apologies. I haven't been keeping up with my email and I just saw the comments. Please close this bug report if there are existing solutions for this one. I don't want to take up more of your time. As mentioned by c-lobrano, I just changed the Gedit theme to another one. It's a workaround, but it works well enough.

The solution in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtksourceview4/+bug/1887311 also works for me. Could this please be changed in Ubuntu?

Fixed with https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/pull/2546

Thanks. The fix is not in Ubuntu yet, so not "released".

Good evening! Does anyone know when a fix might be pushed to Ubuntu? And if it would come to LTS? Thanks.

Looks like the fix is in 21.04 now. Not sure about the plan for LTS.

Thank you :)

What does it take to get bugs fixed in LTS?

I'm on 22.04 and still experiencing this bug. I thought this was fixed in 21.04? What happened?

#14 Is two initial LTS release enough long? (still not backported to 20.04) and also not corrected in 22.04 and in 22.04.1 as well. c'mon it's just a hex number in an xml file... Please, LTS means Long Term Support and not Long Term sh!t.

The Yaru team would be unaware of this bug because it is still closed for the Yaru project. I'll reopen it now, but someone please also report the issue to the Yaru design team at https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues and then mention the new issue ID here.

Its still a bug in 22.04.

as a normal user i can change the highlight active line setting as a "workaround" but that is not possible if gedit is started as root.

Daniel, Could you please link the reopened Yaru team issue?
Reopened the case for the Yaru Design team: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/2090

According to the ticket in #27 please try to change the color schema in the preferences->Fonts&Colors.
https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/gedit-change-color-scheme.html.en
Gedit can has a different schema than the system...
AND if you upgraded from previous version, you can easily inherit the old classic schema.

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

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 (the light version, with few pre-installed programs), during installation I selected Dark Theme, then installed gedit with APT.
Same screenshots as visible https://askubuntu.com/questions/1230173/selected-lines-contents-arent-readable-in-gedit-while-using-dark-theme-on-ubun

Gedit is really ununsable in this default configuration, and one should not have to go search for workarounds on the internet to make this basic program work ;)

I "fixed" it by going to Gedit's properties, Fonts and Colors, and changing from the default selected Tango theme to Oblivion. All good now.