title: The selected entry in Eclipse content assist is unreadable because of colours
body: <p>In my Eclipse installation, the selected entry in the content assist menu is almost unreadable because the colour is white on white-greyish. See image below.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjHOJ.png" alt="Highlighted entry unreadable"></p>
  
  <p>I can change the background and text colour of the non-selected entries in the list from eclipse preferences, but the selected entry is always the same colour and is always unreadable. I use the <a href="http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eclipse Color Theme</a> <a href="http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&amp;id=30" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RecognEyes</a>, but that should only affect the editor as far as I understand.</p>
  
  <p><strong>How do I make the text of the selected entry in the context assist menu readable?</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>After reading <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6424800/the-selected-entry-in-eclipse-content-assist-is-unreadable-because-of-colours/6464861#6464861">m1shk4's answer</a> it does indeed seem that Eclipse takes it's colours from the current gnome theme. However it does this in a kind of weird way.</p>
  
  <p>The background colour of the content assist "window" is the input boxes background colour, and the text colour is the input boxes text colour. This all seems logical.</p>
  
  <p>However the background colour of the selected entry is the windows background colour, but the text of the selected entry is <strong>not</strong> the background text colour.</p>
  
  <p>See image below for an illustration.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ho5rS.png" alt="Color mapping from gnome theme to eclipse"></p>
  
  <p><strong>Does anybody know how to fix or workaround this issue?</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Working workaround</strong></p>
  
  <p>It seems this issue is rather specific with the default gnome theme in Ubuntu. Switching to another gnome theme solves the issue for me. </p>