1875054 - Compose windows menus and toolbars colours with Ubuntu / POP OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Alistair Cunningham]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Steps to reproduce:

The menus and toolbars of the compose email and compose calendar event pop-up windows have the wrong colours when running in the Ubuntu Unity desktop environment. This makes the items in these hard to read. Please see the attached screenshots.

A related question is whether these pop-up windows should have menus at all? The main email and calendar windows do not have menus. Instead, their menu items have been moved to the hamburger menu at the top right. The Firefox web browser does likewise. Should the compose email and compose calendar event pop-up windows also have their menus moved to the hamburger menu?

Comment 1

[Alistair Cunningham]

Thunderbird is version 122.0b4. Ubuntu is version 23.10.

Comment 2

[Alistair Cunningham]

Attachment: Screenshot of compose email window

Comment 3

[Alistair Cunningham]

Attachment: Screenshot of compose calendar event window

Comment 4

[Alistair Cunningham]

This still happens on 125.0b1, and is quite annoying. Is there any news on fixing it?

Comment 5

[Manuel Grießmayr]

I now have the same issue with Thunderbird 128 under Xubuntu 24.04. The dark theme works fine but the themes "System" and "Bright" show broken compose windows (and broken new event windows). I disabled my userChrome.css file but it didn't help. I also changed my OS theme to more popular ones like Greybird or Adwaita but that also didn't help. So for now the only remedy is to switch to dark mode/theme in Thunderbird.

Comment 6

[Manuel Grießmayr]

I now fixed it via userChrome.css:

/* correct theming of compose window */

#compose-toolbox {
	& > toolbar {
		background-color: #444444 !important;
	}
}

toolbar#MsgHeadersToolbar {
	background-color: white !important;
}

toolbar#FormatToolbar {
	background-color: white !important;
}

arrowscrollbox.menupopup-arrowscrollbox {
	--panel-color: #eeeeee !important;
	--panel-background: #444444 !important;
}

menuitem:hover {
	background-color: #f0544c !important;
}

menuitem[disabled="true"]:hover {
	background-color: transparent !important;
}

It's not perfect because now all menus have a dark background but I guess it's a good start :)
Also note I've done only styling for the compose window and not for the new-event-window.

Comment 7

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Gently ping to request investigation and confirmation for this

Comment 8

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Attachment: Bug 1875054 - Don't rely on the system colors for the composer toolbars. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/dc93e56f550e
Don't rely on the system colors for the composer toolbars. r=aleca

Comment 10

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Comment on attachment 9412987 [details]
Bug 1875054 - Don't rely on the system colors for the composer toolbars. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

[Approval Request Comment]
User impact if declined: unreadable parts with Ambiance Linux theme and maybe others
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): on c-c
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9412987 [details]
Bug 1875054 - Don't rely on the system colors for the composer toolbars. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta
Approved for 128esr

Comment 12

[Daniel Darnell [:dandarnell]]

Thunderbird 129.0b4:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/03f05f104ffe

Comment 13

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 128.1.0esr:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr128/rev/1a4893b6b303