Bug 169723 - Base table text color is dark
Summary: Base table text color is dark
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.3.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Blocks: UI-Theming LibreOffice-Themes
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Reported: 2025-11-28 10:26 UTC by Mihai Vasiliu
Modified: 2025-12-03 11:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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How it looks with implicit Dark theme (14.65 KB, image/png)
2025-11-28 10:27 UTC, Mihai Vasiliu 		Details
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Description Mihai Vasiliu 2025-11-28 10:26:49 UTC 
Description:
When using any Dark theme (default or not), the text in the LibreOffice Base table is dark on dark background, making it hard to read.

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Make sure Enable application theming is checked in Tools -> Options -> Appearance and a Dark theme is selected.
1. Open or create a new Base databse
2. Edit a table
3. Notice the table is dark text on dark background.

Actual Results:
There is no option to change the text color.

Expected Results:
There should be an option ins settings to change the table text color. It should not default to dark on dark.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5698d57449466e0f6219791f55898ac04d097f49
CPU threads: 20; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
CPU threads: 20; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Mihai Vasiliu 2025-11-28 10:27:09 UTC 
Created attachment 204327 [details]
How it looks with implicit Dark theme
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-03 05:21:17 UTC 
My table has a dark background with white font.

KDE with Breeze Dark theme
Theme: [Dark], [x] Enable application theming, [ ] Use white background

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:2)
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
25.8.3-2

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ef56804105afce4013e8c934f39ce4edc59bcc96
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+xcb)
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-03 05:22:36 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> My table has a dark background with white font.
Same for 

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ccfebc2718c2feb8324a4d6abbd45935dcdcc597
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22000); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 Mihai Vasiliu 2025-12-03 08:43:24 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: ccfebc2718c2feb8324a4d6abbd45935dcdcc597
> CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22000); UI render:
> Skia/Raster; VCL: win
> Locale: en-US (en_DE); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded

Have you tried with OS (Windows) Dark Theme? It only reproduces with Dark theme in OS and Dark theme in LO.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-03 11:44:18 UTC 
(In reply to Mihai Vasiliu from comment #4)
> Have you tried with OS (Windows) Dark Theme? It only reproduces with Dark
> theme in OS and Dark theme in LO.

Windows with dark theme
Theme: [Dark], [x] Enable application theming, [ ] Use white background