Bug 166196 - Automatic font colour does not work with appearance
Summary: Automatic font colour does not work with appearance
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164392
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: LibreOffice-Themes
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2025-04-15 12:42 UTC by Mike
Modified: 2025-04-15 14:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Mike 2025-04-15 12:42:05 UTC
Description:
I have just updated to:

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

My system theme option is dark mode so LibreOffice matched that because Tools/Options/Appearance/Options/Appearance is set to System.

The axes, title, legends, etc. were all set to Font Effects/Font color = Automatic _but_ they all remained black which doesn't work well on a dark background. I guess that this is a bug.

I hope that this helps,
Mike.

Actual Results:
See my bug description

Expected Results:
See my bug description


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-04-15 14:22:04 UTC
As in release notes, at 25.2.2 apply one of the Appearance theme extensions linked from the Tools -> Options -> Appearance panel.  The 'Light Application color' theme was designed to mimic the 24.8 and earlier UI.

Once applied it will trash behavior of the os/DE 'Automatic' themes, so profile reset would be needed to fully revert to the default theme (system in a Light or a Dark color scheme) but even that has some issues as you will get a dark document background by default. But the scalc grid and text fg should behave.

After a profile reset, if you want to work with the os/DE provided color scheme, leave the [ System | Light | Dark ] radio button set to the 'System' button.

Or, if using an appearance theme, then the Radio button selection behave (but require a restart of LibreOffice with document save).

Expect further patches of Appearance theme framework at 25.2, with some substantial refactoring already planned for 25.8 release.

You can follow along working with the nightly builds of master as parallel installs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164392 ***