Comment 17 for bug 540332

In reply to comment #12

It is not eclipse's fault, per se. Eclipse uses several different text colours according to the syntax highlighting of the editor being used. If it were eclipse's "fault", then Eclipse would be responsible to check every single possible conflict of colours and dynamically re-configure the theme, which is completely ridiculous, and invalidates the entire point of eclipse managing its own syntax highlighting.

It should actually be gtk's responsibility to recognize when applications specify custom text colours / themes. In those cases, gtk should _not_ apply the default text colour / font / etc, but rather those specified by the application. Only when an application does not specify custom text colours / fonts / etc, should gtk resort to the default text colour / font / etc.