Ticket #3409 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 15 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

Systray and roster popups unreadable under KDE using "negative" desktop theme

Reported by: Llewelyn_MT Owned by: asterix
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: usability Version: 0.11.3
Severity: normal Keywords: systray roster accessability KDE
Cc: OS: Unix

Description

I use a Gajim under KDE 3.5.5a with the standard dark blue theme (because of its high contrast). This color theme uses white text on dark blue background as a standard for all windows. GTK apps are set to follow KDE look&feel, using the gtk-qt-engine. The systray popups for standard KDE/Qt apps (and other GTK apps) use black text on light yellow background. The Gajim systray and roster popups have the same light yellow background, but with the standard system text color, which is white. This makes them unreadable. I have tried to change this in Gajim color settings, but nothing seems to help. All other colors in all windows and menus are correctly set to system colors, including alternate roster background. What's even more surprising the popups in the Options window are displayed correctly (black on light yellow).

I reckon that Gajim is set to use the system font color for systray and roster popups, which the gtk-qt-engine mistakenly translates to the unreadable combination. However I have never observed such behavior in any other application using GTK I run. I have observed 2 different cases: most of them, e.g. GIMP, show popups as KDE apps (black on light yellow), while OpenOffice?.org is using the system colors (white on dark blue).

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Changed 11 months ago by anonymous

  • version changed from 0.11.1 to 0.11.3

Changed 11 months ago by asterix

I don't use KDE, but XFCE, and here background color of tooltips in roster, systray and everywhere else are the one from GTK theme. I just tested to change GTK theme, and background changes too.

Changed 11 months ago by Llewelyn_MT

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to invalid
  • summary changed from Systray and roster popups unreadable under KDE using "negative" desktop theme to Not a bug, rather a system library problem

Sorry for trouble, but I just read the gtk-qt-engine 0.8 release notes: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714

Bugfixes: Fix a bug that caused Qt colours not to be applied to GTK applications. This fixes several graphical problems when using dark colour schemes.

I haven't checked it yet, but it seems that the problem solved. At least it will be in Hardy, due April 2008...

Changed 11 months ago by Llewelyn_MT

  • summary changed from Not a bug, rather a system library problem to Systray and roster popups unreadable under KDE using "negative" desktop theme

The "bug" summary could still be useful sometime. ;-)

Add/Change #3409 (Systray and roster popups unreadable under KDE using "negative" desktop theme)

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