534369 - Color of Warning Messages Should Not Be That of Tooltips

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091209 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: 3.0

When you get a message that TB thinks is spam, or a message that has remote content in it, a message is presented below the headers to inform you and allow you to take an action.

The background of this message is the color of tooltips on your system. Previously on my system, that color was yellow, which was an appropriate color for the warnings. Now that my tooltips are green, the warnings have a green background, and it's quite confusing. 

I'd suggest hard coding the background color or maybe somebody else has a better idea.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a message with remote content from somebody that isn't allowed to send it to you.
2. Note the background color of the warning panel above the contents of the message.
3. Change your tooltip color (in gnome: Appearance > Theme > Customize > Colors > Tooltips)
4. Repeat step 1.


Expected Results:  
An appropriate color for the context should be used.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre)
> Gecko/20091209 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.2
> Build Identifier: 3.0
> 
> When you get a message that TB thinks is spam, or a message that has remote
> content in it, a message is presented below the headers to inform you and
> allow you to take an action.
> 
> The background of this message is the color of tooltips on your system.
> Previously on my system, that color was yellow, which was an appropriate
> color for the warnings. Now that my tooltips are green, the warnings have a
> green background, and it's quite confusing. 
> 
> I'd suggest hard coding the background color or maybe somebody else has a
> better idea.

is the change in color a regression?

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

I tried a TB 2 on Win7 and see no difference to TB 3.1 or Shredder. Both are showing a soft pink background.

TB is using InfoBackground as background color. On my Ubuntu Linux this is black. And this can change depending on OS theme. Maybe it would be better to define a fixed color instead a system color.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

current thoughts?

Comment 4

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

On TB 60 scam info has a red background and blocked image info has yellow. -> WORKSFORME