Bug 143882 - LibreOffice has now become completely unusable with Windows' high contrast mode
Summary: LibreOffice has now become completely unusable with Windows' high contrast mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98032
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2021-08-15 03:50 UTC by Get Phobo
Modified: 2021-08-15 15:06 UTC (History)
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Description Get Phobo 2021-08-15 03:50:07 UTC
Description:
As stated above, LibreOffice has now become completely unusable with Windows' high contrast mode. I am unable to see the menu bar which is displayed in full white on white whereas my settings would tell it to show #ccddee (font color) on #112233 (background color). In other words, it completely disregards any of my system settings.

Interestingly, this does not fully apply to the main program (when you just start LibreOffice, not Writer, Calc, or any of the others) which displays the menu bar white on a very light gray (#f6f6f6). Again, this is not a color defined by me but the main program displays it anyway for some unknown reason. Opening one of the apps changes it to white on white, though.

Also, the icon bar on the right side of the window shows no icons/buttons. It only shows a border around a supposed button when hovering with the mouse over it and otherwise displays the background color with no foreground color. This has already been an issue with version 7. I do not remember any such issues with prior versions.

Please note this all solely applies to the UI rendering, not the document rendering, which is actually fine and doesn't force you to fiddle with the color settings like prior versions did. But the UI's gone bad and needs some serious fixing.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Alt+Shift+PrtScr.
2. Press Alt+Shift+PrtScr.
3. Compare, and try to fix that mess.

Actual Results:
Unusable UI

Expected Results:
A usable UI no matter the color mode


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.1.5.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 85f04e9f809797b8199d13c421bd8a2b025d52b5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Get Phobo 2021-08-15 04:07:49 UTC
The current 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ has the same problem.

It is possible to make it somewhat usable by choosing the dark theme (that is, if you even manage to find the Options menu). This will fix the issue with the white-on-white menu bar. However, it does not fix the sidebar issue.
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2021-08-15 15:06:57 UTC
Can confirm sort of.

When used with other assistive technology tools, e.g. the F10, F6 focus and <Tab>/<Cursor> movments the menu items are fully exposed in the HC theme passed in from WDM.  Windows 10 HC#1, HC#1, Black, White all are functional using keyboard or mouse movements.

Just the visual of the controls without focus really sucks.

Affects other HC Windows themes, GrayEve for example.

So, there is some additional LO dev effort needed for Windows HC mode theme being passed in from WDM--but effort would be better spent on addressing bug 118320 to implement more complete theme support for UWP based UI from the WDM.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 98032 ***