I investigated since I wanted to understand what was going on here. I thought this was probably an Ambiance-related theme issue, but I was wrong. (I've also posted the following explanation at the upstream ticket at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694598 .)
Back in GNOME 2.32, both gedit and gnome-terminal stored settings in GConf. At that time the gedit terminal plugin looked at gnome-terminal's GConf settings to read the default profile information to find out what colors to use. You can see that code here: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit- plugins/tree/plugins/terminal/terminal.py?h=gnome-2-32 Then in GNOME 3.0 gedit ported over to GSettings, but gnome-terminal was still using GConf. The terminal plugin could no longer easily look at the gnome-terminal profile info, so the terminal plugin just started using the default colors from the VTE terminal widget (which look poor, hence this bug). At that time the terminal plugin code added this FIXME line: def get_profile_settings(self): #FIXME return either the gnome-terminal settings or the gedit one return Gio.Settings.new("org.gnome.gedit.plugins.terminal") Now, finally, in GNOME 3.8 gnome-terminal has been ported to use GSettings: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/tree/NEWS?h=gnome-3-8 So it should now be possible to fix this bug by having the terminal plugin read profile information from GSettings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 Title: font not visible in terminal plugin Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Won't Fix Status in set of plugins for gedit: Unknown Status in “gedit-plugins” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In font of the terminal plugin is not visible as the background and the font have the same colour(white) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gedit 3.3.4-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Mar 4 11:02:22 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_IN:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_IN SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-25 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/946095/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
