140226 - [RFE] Ability to use system colors in monochrome graphics in skins

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31726

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

I am creating a skin in system colors, like classic. The problem is
when using dark backgrounds, some elements cannot be seen, such as
the X in the tabs and sidebar close button and the scrollbar arrows.

I use a black image on transparent background and -moz-dialog for
background color. I wish there was a way to display the black part
in system foreground color.

I'd just like to note that native apps display these elements in the
system foreground, so they are visible even in dark backgrounds.

Comment 1

[Bamm Gabriana]

This should only apply to monochrome gifs with color 0 set to transparent.
Color 1 would then be set to a color specified in the CSS file, probably a
system color such as ButtonText or CaptionText or -moz-DialogText.

Comment 2

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

Attachment: What Classic looks like with moderately dark and very dark backgrounds.

The attached image shows what Classic looks like with two 
different GTK themes.  The first (top) is "thEmacs", the 
GTK theme I normally use, on the grounds that it uses soft 
tertiary colours and does not harm the eyes over long hours.  
The bottom shows the pathological case.  It is the "terminal"
GTK theme, and uses such a dark background that the check
marks and so forth are just about totally invisible.  Any
theme that uses system colours (Classic and Lo-Fi to name
two) needs to be able to deal with this situation gracefully.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Bug 45501 was resolved as dup of 31726 so I think this one should be as well :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31726 ***

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

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