Bug 128287 - LibreOffice menu bar not displayed in Windows 10 high contrast view
Summary: LibreOffice menu bar not displayed in Windows 10 high contrast view
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: high major
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-10-21 08:50 UTC by bruhinpaul
Modified: 2022-12-30 13:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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error menu bar high contrast (49.32 KB, image/png)
2019-10-21 08:51 UTC, bruhinpaul
Details
high contrast settings german (60.43 KB, image/png)
2019-10-21 16:42 UTC, bruhinpaul
Details

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Description bruhinpaul 2019-10-21 08:50:31 UTC
Description:
LibreOffice menu bar not displayed in Windows 10 Dark mode / high contrast view

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Activate high contrast in Windows 10
2.Open LibreOffice Writer or Calc
3.

Actual Results:
Menu bar not visible (except when mouseover)

Expected Results:
inverted colors for menu bar


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: de
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 bruhinpaul 2019-10-21 08:51:07 UTC
Created attachment 155180 [details]
error menu bar high contrast
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2019-10-21 10:38:26 UTC
Which have you selected for high contrast in Windows 10.
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2019-10-21 10:39:01 UTC
Sorry, Which theme have you selected for high contrast in Windows 10.
Comment 4 bruhinpaul 2019-10-21 16:42:13 UTC
Created attachment 155206 [details]
high contrast settings german

Hi,

It's the default theme of Windows 10 but with the "high contrast" (german hoher kontrast, s. screenshot).

Thanks,
Paul
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2019-10-22 02:34:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Paul Robinson 2020-04-06 00:25:24 UTC
I can confirm the described behavior. I have been a user of Open Office for years. When Open Office runs and the user is in High Contrast, the buttons and menus do show correctly. Libre Office requires that High Contrast mode be enabled, but while this fixes the visibility of the buttons, the menus are invisible. Individual menu item become visible when the mouse hovers over them.

To reproduce the problem, try running in High Contrast, which can be enabled (or turned off) with Left Shift+Left Alt+PrtSc

Also, it's not related to the German version of Windows. I'm running the American English version of Windows 10 and run High Contrast.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2022-04-07 03:42:26 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Russ 2022-11-02 05:10:51 UTC
Hello,

I am currently running Windows 11 22H2. I am also experiencing the same issue (blank menu bar until menu items are hovered over). Interestingly enough, I installed OpenOffice to see if it was also affected (and I don't expect its code to have changed in ages). However, I was surprised to find that it behaves as a program should when high contrast mode is on (that is, inheriting the color scheme of whichever contrast theme is applied... in my case, the menu bar is not blank and the menu items can be seen without hovering over them). 

Here is my LibreOffice version info:

Version: 7.3.6.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c28ca90fd6e1a19e189fc16c05f8f8924961e12e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL


and here is my OpenOffice version info:

AOO4113m1(Build:9810)  -  Rev. 281f0d3533
2022-07-01 10:22


At any rate, thank you for your hard work in maintaining this amazing software collection! 


-Russ
Comment 9 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-30 13:03:20 UTC
The visibility of the bar in high contrast mode has improved since LO 7.4:

Version: 7.4.3.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1048a8393ae2eeec98dff31b5c133c5f1d08b890
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

Many improvements also made it into 7.5:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5#GUI

Please test with version 7.5: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/12/27/libreoffice-7-5-rc-1-is-available-for-testing/

If they exist, remaining issues can be tracked in new bugs.