435096 - Minimonth: month/year button text not readable with high contrast theme

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 671119

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Attachment: screenshot

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When using a different Windows theme (in this case a high contrast white on black theme) the text of the month/year buttons in the minimonth control is not readable. See screenshot for explanation.

The minimonth should use the system colors if possible. If it's not possible it should specify both background and text color to keep the text readable.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Attachment: screenshot using system colors

First approach using system colors. This fixes the issue and matches the display of the dropdown month/year menus.

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Attachment: using system colors

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Comment on attachment 343387 [details]
screenshot using system colors

The screenshot shows the current minimonth (left) and with patch applied (right) comparison for XP Luna, Classic, Contrast Black and Contrast White theme.

Comment 4

[Christian Jansen]

This is surly an improvement, but I'm not happy with the removal of the grey backgrond of the navigation box. Maybe it should be replaced by "ThreeDFace" instead of removing it completely.

Comment 5

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Another possibility would be to define the text color in addition to the background color too. This way the minimonth would always look the same. Drawback: Ignoring the users theme settings.

Comment 6

[BJ]

Thunderbird and Firefox allow the user to set text and background colours. Why not add these config options to Calendar? (as well as addressing the background colour issue which by the way doesn't occur in Thunderbird or Firefox GUIs).

Comment 7

[BJ]

OH yes. I don't think you have the option to set to system colours in Lightning.

Comment 9

[BJ]

Now that I'm back in work with access to my PC running Thunderbird and Lightning I realise we have 2 issues here:

1) The bug as described where the top left hand pane and drop-down list below it has invisible text when using the Windows High Contrast (black in my case) colour scheme. The text in the bigger calander view on the right is visible so why not set the colours of the smaller left side panes to work the same way?

2) Lightning does not obey the Thunderbird colour settings either. I have set the Thunderbird colours to be white text on a black background. Since the Lightning add-on has no options for setting colours should it not obey the Thunderbird settings?

Comment 10

[BJ]

Just discovered that the Events pane within Lightning's Task view has the same problem. Will try to attach a .bmp screenshot.

Comment 11

[BJ]

Attachment: BMP screenshot of Lightning Task view showing invisible text in Events pane (and minimonth)

Comment 12

[Decathlon]

This issue is now addressed in bug 671119 for the global UI.
I think it could be marked as duplicate.