Bug 104872 - Poor contrast, unreadable text in the "About" dialog
Summary: Poor contrast, unreadable text in the "About" dialog
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.0.beta2
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2016-12-23 04:10 UTC by Enrique
Modified: 2019-05-15 09:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
LibreOfficeDev5.3 on Ubuntu16 w/ Unity Arc-dark theme (71.31 KB, image/png)
2016-12-23 14:36 UTC, Enrique
Details
LibreOfficeDev5.3 About on Ubuntu16 w/ dark-background theme (159.09 KB, image/png)
2016-12-23 14:40 UTC, Enrique
Details

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Description Enrique 2016-12-23 04:10:05 UTC
Description:
The "About LibreOfficeDev" window (Help menu) has a dark background on the left half that makes the black text nearly unreadable. Ironically, the unreadable text begins, "LibreOffice is a modern, easy-to-use open source..." 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the Help/About window.
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Actual Results:  
Some of the text is very difficult to read (black-on-dark-grey).

Expected Results:
The information should be easy to read.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/55.0.2883.87 Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Enrique 2016-12-23 04:16:39 UTC
The background color of the About window depends on the Theme set for the Unity desktop environment.
Comment 2 tommy27 2016-12-23 08:49:11 UTC
post a screenshot please-

looks fine in LibODev 5.4.0.0 under Windows 7 and 8.1 both x64
Comment 3 Enrique 2016-12-23 14:36:19 UTC
Created attachment 129897 [details]
LibreOfficeDev5.3 on Ubuntu16 w/ Unity Arc-dark theme

The bad news is it's not just the About window. Light-on-dark desktop themes don't work well with LibreOffice controls and toolbars. The background changes to dark but the symbol color stays dark also. It should become light for contrast.

The good news is everything looks fine with the default Ubuntu themes (they are dark-on-light).
Comment 4 Enrique 2016-12-23 14:40:47 UTC
Created attachment 129898 [details]
LibreOfficeDev5.3 About on Ubuntu16 w/ dark-background theme

This is the window that originally prompted this. This is not a default Unity color theme. Other applications have an alternative light icon color for use with dark-background desktop themes.
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2016-12-23 16:05:11 UTC
I can reproduce it in

Version: 5.3.0.0.beta1
Build ID: 690f553ecb3efd19143acbf01f3af4e289e94536
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; Layout Engine: new; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

but not in

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 7a1add76d542e9929c1feab9e06949990e236616
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME and adding backportRequest:5.3