On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Michael wrote:

> On Monday 10 December 2018 03:57:35 am Felmon Davis wrote:
>> I still have the disappearing menu items in OpenOffice though. let's
>> say I activate a minimized OO window; then the menu items are
>> visible. if I pass the mouse over them, they disappear as a group but
>> the individual item will appear directly under the mouse.
>>
>> it's tolerable but it would be nice to fix. as far as I can tell,
>> other things, at least things I use the most, are civilized.
>
> This is a somewhat known issue with OO.  Pop-up windows in OO are also about
> unreadable, which is solved by grabbing the  pop-up edge with the mouse and
> dragging it until it's readable.  Trial and error till you find what makes
> the  pop-up windows fully readable.

I don't think I've experienced this but I don't have pop-ups.

> It's also seemingly OS dependent, as I did different thing on CentOS to 'make
> it better' than I did on Ubuntu.

and I didn't have the trouble under Jessie.

> To fix most of it (Ubuntu), I started with the theme Plastik and made mods to
> that.  If someone knows where themes are stored I can do a diff between my
> changes and the original Plastick.  Or just upload it.
>

I probably wouldn't know what to do with it but wouldn't mind having a 
look. if it's not trouble, could you please upload it somewhere and 
I'll grab it.

fjd

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Felmon Davis