Font color from 2.2 -> 2.8

[Dale <dale dmellor dabsol co uk>]

Sorry for cross-posting, but I got no response from gtk-list. Perhaps
somebody else has also seen the problem and doesn't know of anything
that can be done about it?

I've recently upgraded my libraries from something around gtk+-2.2 to
the latest gtk+-2.8.3.  Everything is perfect except the fonts in my
application are now showing up a funny color (I'm not running any kind
of desktop, just metacity on X; I think the colors are coming in from
my .Xdefaults file), instead of the fg[normal] color in the resource
file which I am reading in explicitly (my application has to set its
own font color independently of the environment).

Any ideas?

Ta.
Dale