1013654 - Make it possible to sample the colour of the menu bar or tabs toolbar.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

We ran into an issue in bug 940393 where under certain conditions, the tab titles were very hard to read on Windows 8.

We ended up using a pretty hacky approach to read Windows registry entries in order to determine the toolbar colour. It'd be great if we had some kind of platform support so we could tear that hack out.

Comment 1

[Anuj Agarwal [:anujagarwal464]]

I would like to work on this bug. Can somebody give me few pointers on what need to be done here?

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This bug will involve replacing http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/modules/Windows8WindowFrameColor.jsm with more appropriate APIs to determine the titlebar colors. I don't know what those APIs would be - I'm guessing Jim can provide more info here.

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

There's some discussion of exposing this through css in bug 578780. We ended up just doing some registry hacks in front end code. Honestly I'd be comfortable resolving this wontfix if the work in bug 940393 is sufficient. Otherwise we should revisit bug 578780.

Comment 4

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

Clearing needinfo and deferring to jimm

Comment 5

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I would prefer that we revisit bug 578780 and close this as wontfix.

Comment 6

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

If there's controversy about implementation, this is not a good first bug.

Comment 7

[Swarnim]

Hi Jim. I am interested to resolve this bug.May be I can help you.