Bug 138215 - LibreOffice struggles with dark themes.
Summary: LibreOffice struggles with dark themes.
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.3.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2020-11-14 16:14 UTC by bas_gommans
Modified: 2022-07-02 03:32 UTC (History)
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Description bas_gommans 2020-11-14 16:14:45 UTC
Description:
LibreOffice still struggles with dark themes, often it puts black letters on a grey/black background. In my particular case, I use Arch with dwm and I set the themes with lxappearance and qt5ct/qvantum. I use the materia dark theme with the Elementary icons. The first screen which you get after you open it after an install shows black letters on a dark grey background, making it difficult to read it. When you open a new document in Writer there is a lack of contrast which makes it much more difficult to read the menu-items. It would be nice if the contrast would be higher. 


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select the Materia dark theme and Elementary icons
2.Open LibreOffice
3.

Actual Results:
Nothing to add here, it should be clear. 

Expected Results:
Irrelevant for this bug-report. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Respect the system theme settings, adapt to it if necessary if you do have good reasons not to respect the system theme settings (if you detect that a theme with a dark blackground is used then use white/yellow...letters, any color that contrasts well) or build in nice dark themes.
Comment 1 Gaudillat 2021-01-12 13:09:03 UTC
I confirm having observing same behaviour.

Icons in dropdown menus are not visible
letters are black on a dark grey background

and this even with police like "breeze Dark"
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2021-12-01 09:23:18 UTC
We have many similar reports, can you please check, if your problem is already reported: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1388787&op_sys=Linux%20%28All%29&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=dark%20theme&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr

Asking because you did not attach any screenshot.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-06-01 03:37:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2022-07-02 03:32:14 UTC
Dear bas_gommans,

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