Bug 163462 - Highlighted text unreadable in macro editor with dark theme set
Summary: Highlighted text unreadable in macro editor with dark theme set
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BASIC (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.2.1 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium normal
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Blocks: macOS-Dark-Mode BASIC-IDE
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Reported: 2024-10-16 08:37 UTC by Landon
Modified: 2025-06-25 13:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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A screenshot example of highlighted text in dark mode. (154.24 KB, image/png)
2024-10-16 08:37 UTC, Landon
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Flipping through color schemes (446.48 KB, video/quicktime)
2024-10-17 09:26 UTC, Landon
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screenshot of jupyter-notebook with theme: dark high contrast (59.57 KB, image/png)
2024-10-19 06:08 UTC, Werner Tietz
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Description Landon 2024-10-16 08:37:31 UTC
Created attachment 197078 [details]
A screenshot example of highlighted text in dark mode.

Text highlighted in Macro Editor when dark theme is set is unreadable.

I have tested using light system theme with dark LibreOffice theme and using dark system theme with dark LibreOffice theme and have gotten the same results. I have also tested with each of the editor color schemes and have gotten the same results.
Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2024-10-16 23:22:55 UTC
So you get a white highlight regardless of the color scheme being used? Does this happen with all schemes under View - Color Scheme?

In kf5 / kf6 this is working as expected. Maybe this bug is specific to macOS.
Comment 2 Landon 2024-10-17 09:26:13 UTC
It does happen with all color schemes.
Comment 3 Landon 2024-10-17 09:26:41 UTC
Created attachment 197107 [details]
Flipping through color schemes
Comment 4 Landon 2024-10-17 09:29:51 UTC
I only explained two modes in my original comment. To be clear, this occurs on all combinations of light/dark system and LibreOffice mode except for Light/Light.
Comment 5 Werner Tietz 2024-10-19 06:08:10 UTC
Created attachment 197146 [details]
screenshot of jupyter-notebook with theme: dark high contrast
Comment 6 Werner Tietz 2024-10-19 06:12:37 UTC
The visibility/usability of the dark-themes in general is poor… compared to for example »dark high contrast« in jupyter-notebook
see attached screenshot
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2025-06-25 13:29:41 UTC
Not reproduced on Linux. On Windows I could not test as the background remained white: bug 167206

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 070732f622ac54f940f41d7d80883a2385725111
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
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