After upgrading to 1.1.0-20, the menu highlight in OOo Writer at least appears to now be a white that washes out the colors of the text in the menu. Using stock Bluecurve for my theme. If you want to see, just drop by tomorrow.
I talked to Meeks about this today, and he said that the patch pulls the highlight color from the "prelight" color of the current theme, which he seemed to think Bluecurve was not properly setting for Menus or something. I'll look into it.
This problem should be fixed in 1.1.0-22 later today. Issue was the specific color tags used, Meeks had done: bg[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT] fg[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT] which looks bad. The correct ones should be: bg[GTK_STATE_SELECTED] text[GTK_STATE_SELECTED] Dan
The binary you sent me works, so looks good.