GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 234502
Unreadable text with Eazel/Crux theme
Last modified: 2004-09-29 20:42:51 UTC
I'm using Evolution with the popular eazel/crux theme, as provided by gtk-engines-eazel version 0.3-4 in Debian. The problem is that some of the text in Evolution becomes unreadable because its color is hardly different from the background. In particular, this is the text of the highlighted line in the message list (the background color is #4a7173, which makes it hard to read the black text; other applications flip the color of highlighted text to white), and the text in the area above the message list, where the folder name and the number of messages are displayed (the text is white there, and the background is #dedfde, which makes the text almost indiscernible). Since all the other applications make their text white or black to achieve better contrast when appropriate, I believe this is an Evolution problem. I would attach a screenshot to this report, but there doesn't seem to be an option for this here in Bugzilla. I can send it via e-mail if needed. Thanks for looking into this.
Created attachment 41766 [details] Made it! Here's an attached image that shows the problem.
This is a theme bug. Marking it as a dup of 6032 which is the exact same bug. There is a fix there for the gtkrc of the eazel-blue theme which should also apply to Crux. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206032 ***
[Bug seems to have reopened without my comments. So here they are again.] The patch for bug 206032 corrects part of the problem, but not all. The message list is now fine, but the area *above* the message list still remains almost white-on-white. This is the area where "0 new, 1 selected, 303 total" is displayed, for example. Please have a look at the screenshot I attached to this bug originally. I've had a look at Crux's gtkrc file but couldn't see where these colors might be defined. Thanks for the good work and for your help.
It looks like it may be slightly more of an issue with crux there also. I am not sure. However, evolution in CVS HEAD has this bar themeable now, assuming the theme is done correctly. It uses bg[ACTIVE] for the color. I'm marking this as a dup of 7405. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207405 ***