Bug 165266 - default Automatic Appearance theme Light and dark mode Radio Button set opposite to System sets unusable colors of background and typeface (comment 5)
Summary: default Automatic Appearance theme Light and dark mode Radio Button set oppos...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.0.3 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Sahil Gautam (allotropia)
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Keywords:
: 154916 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: macOS-UI-polish LibreOffice-Themes
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Reported: 2025-02-15 20:15 UTC by Stefan Rick
Modified: 2025-02-21 22:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screenshot of messed-up interface (162.31 KB, image/png)
2025-02-15 20:16 UTC, Stefan Rick
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Description Stefan Rick 2025-02-15 20:15:44 UTC
Description:
The new version (25.x) has messed up the background colors of documents. If I try to change that in Preferences, the Preferences are not readable because the typeface is now white on a white background. 

Steps to Reproduce:
Just open a word document in the newly installed version 25. Every background color is different - and not in a pleasant way.

Actual Results:
Just open a word document in the newly installed version 25.

Expected Results:
I do not need background colors to look exactly like they used to in version 24, but this looks just terrible. (Resetting user profile to factory settings does not make any difference.)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Have been using LO for many years and never had an issue. Why does this have to look so user-unfriendly? I can't imagine any user will like it and like to work with it.
Comment 1 Stefan Rick 2025-02-15 20:16:49 UTC
Created attachment 199217 [details]
Screenshot of messed-up interface
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2025-02-15 21:58:52 UTC
You look to have toggled the Appearance theme panel for 'Automatic' theme from 'System' to 'Light'.

At the moment, best to download and enable one of the Appearance themes (the mustard download star).  That will apply a set of colors that should be functional with any of the three RB settings 'System' (following os/DE) 'Light' or 'Dark'

Getting back to default Automatic theme can be done, but is fiddley. Simplest to delete your user profile.

@Heiko, @Sahil your both up on macOS systems at this point. Any issues for you applying and manipulating the Appearance theme extensions, or of the default Automatic theme responding to Light|Dark or System reported color theming?
Comment 3 Sahil Gautam (allotropia) 2025-02-15 22:45:12 UTC
Well I planned to buy one at the end of this month, but guess that would be too late. I will get one by tomorrow max, then will push some patches to remedy the situation.
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2025-02-15 23:51:05 UTC
(In reply to Sahil Gautam (allotropia) from comment #3)
> Well I planned to buy one at the end of this month, but guess that would be
> too late. I will get one by tomorrow max, then will push some patches to
> remedy the situation.

Cool! Maybe reach out to Patrick L. to compare notes.
Comment 5 Patrick (volunteer) 2025-02-16 01:06:53 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> You look to have toggled the Appearance theme panel for 'Automatic' theme
> from 'System' to 'Light'.

I can reproduce this. If the Appearance preference is set to System, all the colors are readable (I tested both system light and dark modes).

Only when the Appearance preference is set to the opposite of the system setting does the bug occur:

Version: 25.2.0.3 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 15.3; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 Patrick (volunteer) 2025-02-16 01:17:42 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Getting back to default Automatic theme can be done, but is fiddley.
> Simplest to delete your user profile.

I can confirm that quitting LibreOffice and then deleting my LibreOffice preferences folder will restore LibreOffice to a readable state although you will be stuck using whatever light or dark mode your Mac is set to.

For any other users that are experiencing this bug, use the following steps to delete your LibreOffice preferences folder:

1. Quit LibreOffice
2. Go to the Finder and select the Go > Go to Folder menu item
3. Paste the following path in the dialog that appears and press the Enter key:
   ~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice
4. There should be a subfolder in the above folder named "4". Move that folder
   to the Trash.
5. Restart LibreOffice
Comment 7 Patrick (volunteer) 2025-02-16 13:28:59 UTC
*** Bug 154916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 philosoraptor1 2025-02-18 02:36:34 UTC
Same problem here. I thought it had something to do with all the themes disappearing but seems like it’s a bigger bug. I’ve reverted to the last version of 24 to correct it.