1689165 - Add-ons Options tab font color issue - unreadable text

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[dreamer8]

Attachment: Thunderbird Add-ons Options tab font color issue - unreadable text.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Steps to reproduce:

• install any add-on (I can reproduce it with most installed add-ons)
• open add-ons tab from Tools menu item
• open any add-on with options
• click the Options sub-tab

Actual results:

Most options text is black on black background, it's not completely black, if I change contrast or zoom in, I can see the text, but it's almost unreadable.

Expected results:

Options text should be light grey color, so it would be readable.

Workaround, click any option checkbox and press Ctrl+A to see white text on blue background.

Theme used: Default (A theme with the operating system color scheme.)
Author: Mozilla
Version: 1.0
Last Updated: October 29, 2019

Thunderbird 78.7.0 (32-bit) portable, Windows 10 20H2 64-bit.

Comment 1

[dreamer8]

I forgot to write 1 step to reproduce:

• in Windows Settings - Personalization - Colors - use dark mode (possibly restart Thunderbird after this step)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Did this work correctly for you in 78.6.0 or 78.6.1 ?

Comment 3

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

It doesn't work because you force the text- and background colours. Don't set Options > General > Colors... Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above to Always.

Comment 4

[dreamer8]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)

Did this work correctly for you in 78.6.0 or 78.6.1 ?

It was the same, probably also in older versions.

Comment 5

[dreamer8]

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #3)

It doesn't work because you force the text- and background colours. Don't set Options > General > Colors... Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above to Always.

I disagree, I still think it's a bug, I'll explain why.

First, I'm sorry, I forgot 1 important steps to reproduce:

• Options > General > Colors, disable "Use system colors", for text use light grey, for background use very dark grey, for links light blue, "Overwrite the colors..." - set "Always"

When I use these options, correct colors are used everywhere in Thunderbird, except the Add-ons - Options, here the custom background color is used, but font color is not used - this is a bug, both colors should be used - or even if none of these colors would be accepted, it would be still readable, but 1 custom color is accepted, the other one not.

BTW I found another related issue, scrollbar color in email list pane (don't know the right name) use dark color from system, since I'm using dark mode, but scrollbar color in "Message pane" use light color, I think it should be the same.

Comment 6

[dreamer8]

Attachment: Thunderbird Add-ons Options tab font color issue - unreadable text2.png

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

@Reporter,
Does this still reproduce when using version 91? And if you resolved the problem, what was the solution?

Comment 8

[dreamer8]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #7)

@Reporter,
Does this still reproduce when using version 91? And if you resolved the problem, what was the solution?

Not fixed in 91.3.2 (32-bit), both issues, add-ons text color and scrollbar color, both on the screenshots above.

BTW The scrollbar issue is quite annoying, because one is dark and the other is light. For example, here on bugzilla page, in Firefox, the scrollbar is dark too, why the scrollbars in the main Thunderbird window have to different colors, dark and light?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #3)

It doesn't work because you force the text- and background colours. Don't set Options > General > Colors... Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above to Always.

Should there be a warning that this may affect theme usability?

Comment 10

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #9)

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #3)

It doesn't work because you force the text- and background colours. Don't set Options > General > Colors... Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above to Always.

Should there be a warning that this may affect theme usability?

This could help.