291477 - Hard-coded black colour (color) for menus

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[UMR5174]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

Although my KDE chosen background is navy blue (as recommanded by ergonomists),
main bar items ("File Edit View"...), main bar menus items ("New", "Open Web
Location", "Open file"...) and sub-menus items ("Navigator windows"...) keep
black, instead of being yellow (my KDE text colour).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Choose navy background colour and yellow text colour in KDE.
2.Launch Mozilla.
3.Edit: Preferences: Appearance: "Colors": choose "Use system colors" and "Use
my chosen colors", then click "OK".

Actual Results:  
Main bar items appears in black on navy blue background.

Expected Results:  
Main bar items should be yellow.

I use Mandrakelinux 10.0 . Text colour of Mozilla Navigator toolbar, personal
toolbar, navigation bar and status bar are correct (system defined).

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm, I suppose this is filed against the Classic theme?

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

btw, can you check with a more recent build (a nightly build would be optional
or the latest alpha/beta release) and see if you still see this?
 

Comment 3

[UMR5174]

I had never chosen any "theme", but I've just checked it's "Classic".
In the sidebar, colours are correct, except in the "Tabs" menu, though the word
"Tabs" itself is written in yellow.

Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

I tend to marking this invalid, but I don't have KDE at my hand.

The Classic theme is meant to take system colours on those platrforms that
support it, eg KDE and Windows. And on Windows, the two items you mentioned are
styled differently: menubar text is rendered according to the style 'Menu', the
toolbar text adheres to 'Message Box'.

I suspect you can style those items differently in KDE, too, so this behaviour
is as intended.

Comment 5

[UMR5174]

According to my KDE interface ("LookNFeel"), none of my 23 colours is defined as
black. I use KDE 3.2 branch >= 20040204. I must say there is no specific "dialog
box" colour to choose. There is a "window text" colour, which, according to the
picture, is used both in menu bars and for menus items.
   This problem appears with no other application I use. For instance, not with
OpenOffice 2.0 beta, nor for Konquerror.

Comment 6

[UMR5174]

The problem is the same for FireFox 1.0.3.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

I've never heard about such behaviour with Firefox. For myself I have a
wonderful colored menu background with KDE 3.3/3.4. KDE 3.2 I don't have for
testing purposes but perhaps it could be the issue. Please check if you have
installed a wrapper like gtk2-engines-gtk-qt (debian) which applies system
preferences to gtk2 applications.

Not a bug of Firefox/Mozilla => Invalid.

Comment 8

[UMR5174]

1) That you never heard of this bug is not a sufficient argument (unless only 
duplicate bugs are to be taken into account ?). 
2) This bug does not concern background colour, but, as previously mentionned, 
bar menu TEXT colour, 
3) As already mentionned, this bug regards no application of mine but Mozilla, 
FireFox and ThunderBird, so it may be Mozilla's bug. 
4) gtk2-engines-gtk-qt is not part of FireFox requirements 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements 
so, if such a programm is necessary, this would at least be a lack in FireFox 
documentation. I have gtk-engines-0.12-8mdk (included in Mandrake 10.0). I 
don't have any other gtk*-engines* package. 
5) Could you (or anyone) mention the KDE 3.3 "Widget colour" item commanding 
FireFox bar menu colour (Isn't it "Window text"?)? and say how many "Widget 
colour" items you have in KDE 3.3 ? 
 

Comment 9

[Karsten Düsterloh]

FWIW, I tested with KDE 2.2.2 on Debian Woody. There you have (at least) two
items controlling text color: Standard text (that's your 'yellow') and Window
text (that's what Mozilla is using).
Well, it seems as if I'm not of much help here...

Comment 10

[UMR5174]

On my K.D.E. 3.2, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox use "Window text" for all
bars except menu bar and don't use it for menus, whose text keeps black.
OpenOffice, all many KDE applications I checked, Ark, GnuPlot, "Find files", Qt3
designer, RLPlot etc. use successfully "Window text" colour in their menu bar.
I've just discovered that some other applications have the same problem than
Mozilla softwares have: GnuCash, Planner, Dia, GnomeMeeting, GQview, Totem movie
player, GIMP, Menudrake...

Could anyone using KDE 3 check if the "Widget colour" item commanding Mozilla,
Firefox and/or Thunderbird
bar menu text colour and menus colour is "Window text" ?

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Reporter, like I already told, this is not a bug of Mozilla/Firefox. The default
builds are gtk2 builds which operates the same way like any other gnome
application like you've already seen now. 

To answer your question: Yes, Firefox uses the color settings of window text.
But to apply the new colors, you have to restart Firefox. You missed this?

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a Mozilla issue.  We're just doing whatever GTK tell us; please file bugs on
GTK and KDE not interoperating well in the GKT and KDE bugzillas.

Comment 13

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

v.