Hi megamitzu,

thanks for reporting the problem.
For me, 4.1.3.2 on Ubuntu, I can set to High contrast and vice versa and it does make a difference.

Build ID: 70feb7d99726f064edab4605a8ab840c50ec57a
But I do not have high contrast settings in the OS. Could that be a difference?

ALso, could you pls try with a clean userprofile?
  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
(also for the other issue maybe?)

regards,
Cor

Appears to be related to the colour palette used in the window manager (button colour in particular).

More testing:

Did a fresh profile startup (renamed ~/.config/libreoffice to ~/.config/libreoffice-orig and restarted 4.1.3).  Same result: 'High contrast' icons set was used by default (instead of Crystal or Galaxy) and nothing changes when I seleted a different set of icons in tools/options/view.

However, when using a theme with lighter coloured panels like Adwaita, CleanIce or CleanIce Dark (which uses dark grey panels, but not very dark), the icons could be changed and the change saved between sessions. When switching to a theme with very dark or black panels (like CleanIce Marble or Blackbird) then the LO apps *automatically* switched to High contrast icons and kept this setting regardless of what I choose.  This happened both when a LO app was open at the time of the colour scheme switch and when the program was opened after the scheme change.

Even if the icon set is automatically changed when a dark scheme is applied, the change is saved - 'High copntrast' is used after closing and opening the application and even if the system colour scheme has been reverted to a light scheme in the meantime.

I reproduced this on two different linux machines (Ubuntu 12.10 and SuSE 12.3), both using XFCE 4.10 and LO 4.1.3.
 
When other window manager was used instead of XFCE (Gnome 3 or Window Maker), the problem was not present, but again, I was *not* using dark themes under these WMs. This is why people could not reproduce it under default Gnome - looks like it meeds a dark theme to happen.

It seems to be related to the panel/button colour used by the system palette. It is not related to the text, window background or menu background colours - black menus or dark window backgrounds alone do not trigger the behaviour.

Regarding the other issue (default/automatic colours for text and windows do not match system's scheme), the colours in the LO apps remained the same (window - white, text - black) at all times, regardless of what the system palette was.  I believe that this is a bug in LO - someone has set the defaults to white and black instead of using the system colour vars - but might be something else.  However, once changed, the change is saved.

It is important to recall that neither of these issues were present with LO 3.6.2 that came with both distros used for tests, so I believe they are LO-induced rather than WM-induced.

(In reply to megamitzu from comment #2)

> When other window manager was used instead of XFCE (Gnome 3 or Window
> Maker), the problem was not present, but again, I was *not* using dark
> themes under these WMs. This is why people could not reproduce it under
> default Gnome - looks like it meeds a dark theme to happen.

Can you try reproducing using a dark theme under GNOME? This will help determine if it is the window manager's problem, or LibreOffice's. (Although I suspect you're right, and it's a LO bug.)

> Regarding the other issue (default/automatic colours for text and windows do
> not match system's scheme), the colours in the LO apps remained the same
> (window - white, text - black) at all times, regardless of what the system
> palette was.  I believe that this is a bug in LO - someone has set the
> defaults to white and black instead of using the system colour vars - but
> might be something else.  However, once changed, the change is saved.

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