182590 - Some UI elements have bad colours when private colourmap is used

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98802

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Woithe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

When mozilla 1.2 is started on an 8 bit display which is either low on colourmap
entries (which forces a private colourmap) OR the "-install" command line
parameter is used, some of the UI elements seem to use the colourmap of the root
window.  The page area and some icons are fine, but the menus, the classic skin
toolbar backgrounds and all input lines (such as the location field) seem to
incorrectly use the shared colourmap.  There were no such problems under Mozilla
1.1.  This makes it difficult to use mozilla since things like password entry
boxes (at least on my screen) have black writing on a black background.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start mozilla 1.2 on an 8 bit display with the "-install" option.
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
The mozilla window appears as expected, but some user interface components are
not using mozilla's private colourmap.

Expected Results:  
All UI elements should use the private colourmap.

The theme in use was the "classic" theme.  However, the colourmap problems 
still occur under the "modern" theme.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

does this problem still exist?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Woithe]

In relation to whether this problem still exists: I have just tried mozilla 1.3
under 8 bit colour and the problem is still present in this version.  I am unable
to try mozilla 1.4beta at present.  I will try to do this in the next week or 
so and post the findings here.

Comment 3

[Martin Schmidt]

The problem is also present with AIX at RS6000 with graphic adapters having only
256 colors of 65000. Guess, the mozilla elements use to much colors for such
displays. With - install the colors are different but not better.

M. Schmidt

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'll bet this is the similar to bug 164211 or bug 173587, or even better, bug
98802. Many unixes seem to be having similar problems.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98802 ***