Description: Menus have black text on very dark background using dark mode in windows 10 so are unreadable. This does not occur straight away but after some time of being used. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Libre Office, Calc or writer 2.Use for half an hour or so 3. Actual Results: After a while the black text on grey background changes to black text on very dark grey background. Expected Results: Contrast between the text and the background. White text on dark grey/black background. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-GB Module: SpreadsheetDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Windows (All) OS is 64bit: no
Please enable "Experimental features" and retest. The checkbox Tools -> Options -> Advanced panel, and restart. Also, some additional work that will be in 7.5 available now with nightly master.
Thanks. I tried enabling the experimental features and the same thing happened but in reverse contrast (ie. the drop down menus go light grey with light grey text). I'm using a MS Surface Pro 4, sometimes with a second screen connected via a Surface dock. On further experiment he issue occurs either when connecting/disconnecting the dock/second screen or after the computer has been in sleep mode.
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Hi ivantate Could you please see if the issue if fixed in a recent master build? You can download one from here: https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html Do you use the LibreOffice dark mode and/or use the Windows dark mode? Thank you!
Thanks, Still getting the same result in the recent build. Using Windows 10 dark mode and/or the Libre Office dark theme. The issue doesn't occur using Windows 'custom' colour with 'windows mode' set to dark and 'App mode' set to light.
Thank you for the reply. If I can ask for a couple more things: - Please provide a screenshot of the issue as attachment. It helps with these visual bugs. - Please provide the exact system info copied from Help > About LibreOffice. Thank you!
Created attachment 183588 [details] Screenshot Hope the attached is ok. Version: 7.4.2.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded
Can confirm Version: 7.4.2.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Working in Windows os/DE set to its 'dark' color theme. LO is in default light color mode (Tools -> Options -> Application colors with 'LibrOffice' scheme) with "Automatic (Colibre)" icon theme showing. I am able to reproduce the effect *at will* by using the Win10 os/DE "Settings" dialog and its "Choose your accent color" to open the 'Colors' dialog. Where the "Show accent color on the following surface" is available and then checking the 'Title bars and window borders' checkbox active. Applies immediately and the App Frame for LibreOffice receives a dark rendering as shown in OPs screen shot--and that same App Frame color is assigned to the LO menu background. Unchecking the 'Title bars and window borders' checkbox toggles the LibreOffice App Frame back to os/DE default--but the LO menu bg remains incorrect, retaining the previous dark color from the App Frame. Closing LO resets menu bg on next launch. On same system parallel install a current build of master against a 7.5 release is not affected. There, recent work improves the automatic handling of Windows os/DE in its dark desktop mode including better automatic color mode/theme handling and improved LO foreground / background color. So I think this is going to be limited to 7.4. Not clear it is worth dev effort to fix as work around seems to be to not set os/DE accent color modes for the UI. And this becomes => WF for 7.4, and LO fg / bg colors already correctly handled at 7.5 For OP please install daily build of 7.5 [1] in parallel [2] and see if issues with the Surface 4 tablet continue. =-ref-= [1] https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Win-x86_64@tb77-TDF/ [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Windows
Checked a build of nightly against a 7.4.4 release Version: 7.4.4.0.0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f7f4b00185318c1f2949ca42316e1a92c57da23b CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Issue remains, but enabling experimental features enabled (Tools -> Options -> Advanced) eliminates the issue as with builds of master against 7.5 And setting the LibreOffice Dark color theme (Tools -> Options -> Application Colors) delivers a very usable Dark them on Win10/Win11 os/DE in Dark color mode even when the os/DE colors settings are active. So, the for the corner case--enabling experimental features looks to be enough of a work around to having the accent colors enabled in the os/DE.
Both the 7.5 nightly and the 7.4 with experimental features enabled now appear to be working on the Surface Pro 4. Many thanks
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Stuart, would you say this can be closed as WFM if we don't forsee any further improvements for 7.4 and the workaround is considered sufficient?
The Windows DE theme related experimental feature(s) are already in place at 7.4 => WFM
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I just enabled experimental features enabled (Tools -> Options -> Advanced) and while it might take me some getting used to the dark mode on Libreoffice, it's better than when I had tried dark mode before, which affected the appearance of the document I am editing, and it's much better than trying to squint to figure out the menu items, especially for items that don't have icons. Thank you for investigating this and thank you for the workaround! I'm fine running this way until 7.5 hits stable.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > Please enable "Experimental features" and retest. The checkbox Tools -> > Options -> Advanced panel, and restart. Great! Thank you. Except that tabStops are almost invisible in DarkMode —2 screenshots
Created attachment 183839 [details] tabStops in LightMode
Created attachment 183840 [details] tabStops in DarkMode
(In reply to TorrAB from comment #19) > Except that tabStops are almost invisible in DarkMode —2 screenshots Please open a new bug report about that specific issue, so we can keep it focused. Thank you!
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #22) > (In reply to TorrAB from comment #19) > > > Except that tabStops are almost invisible in DarkMode —2 screenshots > > Please open a new bug report about that specific issue, so we can keep it > focused. Thank you! Increased contrast of UI elements was done as bug 152284, that is now fixed.
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