512462 - When Window is set to the white font color and the black background color, the UI text color is not seen easily

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Themes, defect)

Description

[AKIHIRO Misaki (a.k.a Kuden)]

Attachment: Screenshot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display Properties -> Appearance -> Scheme: Windows Standard
2. select "Window" (click "Window Text")
3. Item: Window -> Color: black, Font: -> Color: white

This is not reproduced in IE. 

Actual Results:
The background color is a gray, and the text color is white. 

Expected Results:
When the background color is a gray, the text color should be black.

Comment 1

[u69748]

I can reproduce on Vista,
and this guy on XP.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/rti7743/20090824/1251123094

Comment 2

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Attachment: Windows Colors

This is a general Windows problem - they use the "Window" text color for labels in dialogs which generally use the "3D Objects" background color.  If the "Window" and "3D Objects" background colors differ significantly the text in dialogs become hard to distinguish.

Note, buttons and other "3D Objects" (e.g. tabs) use the corresponding text color end they are fine, but Mozilla uses exclusively the "Window" text color even with such "3D Objects" elements which makes the issue worse - for this I've filled Bug 539765.  Hope Firefox UX folks will consider it more seriously in the near future.

Comment 3

[goldencut]

Maybe I should start a new bug report, but the issues seem similar, so maybe they're connected. 
In the attached screenshot one can see what my system looks like - a bit darker (easy on eyes), nothing unusual and there's no issues in everyday use, unless a program has some "original" ways in using colors.
The problem is that Firefox doesn't check whether the text and text background are the same color so many text boxes on web pages (eg amazon.com) have white background and white text so user has to write in blind and the text is only readable when selection is made. It can be also somewhat dangerous as when user fails to see some of the page content so she/he can give agreement to things she/he isn't actually aware of.

Comment 4

[goldencut]

Attachment: Desktop colors

My Windows' desktop colors

Comment 5

[goldencut]

Attachment: Text entry area on amazon.com: there's actually text in the text box

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Stanimir Stamenkov from comment #2)
> Created attachment 463927 [details]
> Windows Colors
> 
> This is a general Windows problem - they use the "Window" text color for
> labels in dialogs which generally use the "3D Objects" background color.  If
> the "Window" and "3D Objects" background colors differ significantly the
> text in dialogs become hard to distinguish.

Correct. Also, we don't support any version of Windows anymore where classic colors can be customized.