MidnightBSD Developer Journal

Further testing has revealed a real problem. GNUstep seems to have two issues. First, at 16 bit color depth it has blank menus. Someone else reported this issue on ubuntu and closed the ticket:

http://www.nabble.com/-bug--18128--Art-backend-does-not-draw-properly-on-Ubuntu-6.10-t2518416.html

I've experienced this on X.org 7.3 with the latest stable versions of GNUstep.

At 24 bit depth, the menus draw about a menu's length from the top. So instead of say a menu getting put at the top there is an offset. In the console there are errors about negative values and bad values. I first noticed this with Etoile, but realized it was GNUstep causing the problem. This totally ruins the Etoile experience. When I get more time, I need to investigate a fix for this.