GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98745
window borders hard to see with inverse GTK+ themes
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Many of the Metacity themes don't work so well with the "inverse" themes, for instance HighContrastInverse and HighContrastLargePrintInverse. In these two themes the window borders are not delineated from the dark backgrounds of other windows' contents, so the windows are hard to distinguish from one another (one of the primary functions of window borders). It's too bad, since the themes affected, such as Atlanta, are otherwise possibly the best for low-vision users. There's a simple fix though, that goes a long way to making this better; use gtk:fg[NORMAL] instead of 0x0000000 where borders and black bevels are currently drawn. Attached is a patch for Atlanta that fixes the problem without affecting Atlanta's look for the other available themes, including 'Default'. Havoc, can I commit this 2-line patch? It really does help a lot.
Created attachment 12350 [details] [review] tiny patch to draw borders in fg[NORMAL] for inverse gtk+ themes.
Looks good, go ahead and commit.
Fixed in CVS, thanks Havoc.