GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 207974
Text displayed in folder bar almost unreadable with Crux GTK+ theme.
Last modified: 2002-06-05 16:51:56 UTC
Description of Problem: The text in the folder bar, which is the area that displays the name of the currently active component (e.g. Inbox, Sent, Calendar, Tasks) located just below the icon toolbar, is hardly readable with Crux as the active GTK+ theme: white coloured text on light grey background (R: 222, G: 222 B: 222). Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Install evolution-0.12.99-snap.ximian.200108212341. 2. Download Crux-1.2.x.tar.gz at http://gtk.themes.org/themes.phtml?themeid=982030697. 3. To install the Crux GTK+ theme, type the following commands in your terminal (as root): # tar fvxz Crux-1.2.x.tar.gz # cd eazel-engine-0.3/ # ./configure --disable-nls --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr # make # make install 4. Select Crux as the GTK+ theme in the GNOME Control Center. Actual Results: See "Description of Problem". Expected Results: See "Description of Problem". How often does this happen? Always. Additional Information: The text in the above described area (folder bar) is always white (this appears to be hard-coded in Evolution). The background colour used is apparently picked by Evolution from the active GTK+ theme. With "Raleigh", "Notif", "ThinIce" and "Default", the background colour is dark grey (R: 131, G: 129 B: 131). This colour closely resembles the background colour of the Evolution Shortcut bar (R: 123, G: 125 B: 123). I suggest that the background colour of the above described area (folder bar) should be hard-coded to the background colour of the Shortcut bar in order to avoid to avoid trouble with some GTK+ themes.
Created attachment 40193 [details] Evolution 0.12.99 with the Crux GTK+ theme.
Created attachment 41029 [details] Evolution 1.0.2 with the BrushedMetalClean GTK+ theme.
Evolution 1.0.2 with the BrushedMetalClean GTK+ theme (available in the gtk-engines package) still results in almost unreadable text. The Microsoft Outlook dark grey background colour should definitely be hard-coded in Evolution. Even a standard GTK+ theme, such as BrushedMetalClean, is unusable due the fact that the text is always white in the area described earlier. It's also unclear to me why the folder drop-down button in that area is a non-standard GTK+ button (at least I think so) which does not reflect the active GTK+ theme. The scroll button in the Evolution shortcut bar is GTK+ theme "friendly" so I guess it should be possible to do this with the folder drop-down button as well.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214413 ***