I have an application that targets the 1.5 framework and uses the default light theme. When using a tab widget with this theme, the tab images are barely visible, and the tab ca
This is a bug; can you report it in the the issue tracker?
AFAIK, your workaround of customizing the text and image styles sounds right.
It's also noteworthy that the tab widget in 2.0 doesn't seem to have a light style.