GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 584454
Tomboy does not honor GNOME theme colours (link, highlight, dark themes)
Last modified: 2017-07-31 12:42:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: For a darker theme, the dark blue link colour is hard to see. Tomboy link colour as well as title colour and some others are hard-coded in NoteTag.cs. The yellow highlight colour makes white text unreadable. Steps to reproduce: 1. Use any dark theme in GNOME, with a light link colour. 2. Make a link in tomboy and notice that the link colour is different. Actual results: link colour is different. Expected results: link colour is set according to GNOME theme. Does this happen every time? yes Other information: My workaround was to replace Blue with LightBlue in NoteTag.cs, and recompile. Obviously, this breaks themes with a light background color.
Yeah, this sucks, let's fix.
The highlighting part of this is covered in bug #349625.
<illsci> hey is there a way to theme tomboy? <illsci> I want to have a black background and white text <illsci> i can't stand this white background any more <illsci> i use tomboy a lot btw... thanks for making it <illsci> :) <pcutler> hmm, that's a good question, I don't think I've seen that one before <illsci> i paste in irc conversations I want to reread later on sometimes and its so hard to see the text with a white background <illsci> i always modify my gnome terminal to do white text on black background and then do the transparency <illsci> and make it a little darker... <illsci> i wish i could do that with tomboy
I'm planning to add theming capabilities in a future release. For now, you would have to modify your gtk+ theme, which you can do on a per-app basis (ask somebody else how to do that).
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/ Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. We are sorry for the inconvenience.