Bug 81477 - ACCESSIBILITY: Unable to set low contrast background+font color (non-high contrast O/S theme)
Summary: ACCESSIBILITY: Unable to set low contrast background+font color (non-high con...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.1.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: high minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-07-18 02:49 UTC by Owen Genat (retired)
Modified: 2015-12-17 08:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot showing options and result of displayed text under LOv4302. (72.71 KB, image/png)
2014-07-18 02:49 UTC, Owen Genat (retired)
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Description Owen Genat (retired) 2014-07-18 02:49:09 UTC
Created attachment 103010 [details]
Screenshot showing options and result of displayed text under LOv4302.

Problem description: This may be closed as NOTABUG but it would be good to get clarity on why this is happening. Selecting a low contrast background and font colour pair results in the font colour not being respected (irrespective of the O/S theme or other LO settings). The workaround is to select a font colour offering higher contrast with the background. It appears to affect all components (Tools > Options... > LibreOffice > Appearance settings) and date back to at least v3.5.7.2. Related AskLO thread:

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/37148/

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Writer.
2. Tools > Options... > LibreOffice > Appearance > under the "General"list set "Background color" to Black and set "Font color" to Blue 4 (refer attached).
3. Ensure Tools > Options... > Accessibility > "Options for high contrast appearance" section > first two options are unchecked (default). No high-contract theme is selected in O/S.
4. Click OK.

Current behavior: 
Text is displayed in White.

Expected behavior:
Text is displayed in Blue 4.

Setting either the background colour to Gray 7 or the font colour to Blue 2 offers a workaround. Tested under GNU/Linux (Debian 7 x86_64 + LXDE/Openbox with Taqua theme and Crunchbang 11 x86_64 + Openbox with default Crunchbang theme) using:

- v3.5.7.2 Build ID: 3215f89-f603614-ab984f2-7348103-1225a5b
- v4.1.6.2 Build ID: 40ff705089295be5be0aae9b15123f687c05b0a
- v4.2.5.2 Build ID: 61cb170a04bb1f12e77c884eab9192be736ec5f5
- v4.3.0.2 Build ID: 14ed55896fdfcb93ff437b85c4f3e1923d2b1409
- v4.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 3fdd4f069d5436cf39708004af7fda8175fbc4c2

Behaviour is identical in all cases. Linked AskLO thread reports same issue under Windows 7 for v4.2.5.2.
Operating System: All
Version: 4.1.6.2 release
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-07-23 05:47:17 UTC
I can't imagine this not being a bug - if you set colors and they are ignored, seems like a problem.

Confirmed:
Ubuntu 14.04 x64
LibreOffice 4.3.0.2 - it's also a regression (works fine in 3.3)

Really hard to prioritize this bug...but I'll give it a go:
Minor - not going to prevent high quality work
High - regression + pretty big functionality that no longer works


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Author: Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com>
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Comment 2 Matthew Francis 2015-01-06 03:22:30 UTC
This is fixed in 4.4 and 4.5 master as of the below commit. There's no chance this commit will be backported to 4.3, and it seems unlikely anyone will develop a separate fix just for 4.3 at this point in the lifecycle, so...

(for reference, the original breakage was probably commit 77e21bb36a2cdaaa0f4049dee0d45c5b2325c6e9)

-> RESOLVED FIXED



commit 7d9bb549d498d6beed2c4050c402d09643febdfa
Author: Armin Le Grand <alg@apache.org>
Date:   Mon Jun 2 15:00:50 2014 +0000

    Related: #i124638# Second step of DrawingLayer FillAttributes...
    
    for Writer objects, now added support for Paragraph and PageStyle (including
    Header and Footer) for direct attributes and style attributes
    
    (cherry picked from commit cc25c58f7052827bfebdc9fbeec668c8fa29ed1b)
Comment 3 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-17 08:26:52 UTC
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (bibisected)
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