Wanted to chime in since this hasn't had a comment since October 2006. I'm still seeing this problem on Edgy, package version 0.70-0ubuntu1. I'm attaching a screenshot. It seems to affect most GTK apps I've tried except Firefox.
>From what I've read elsewhere, the patch available works, so it'd be nice if it was worked into a package. ** Attachment added: "Photo evidence of the problem" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5807616/black_bug-gtk2_engine_gtk_qt.jpg -- libgtk2.0-0: the menus of gtk applications are black https://launchpad.net/bugs/27587 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs