Forum color problems

[freghar]

Dear forum administration group (or just TheLuda), I'd like to point out a pretty annoying forum color issue.

I use a dark GTK theme on my system, which means all GTK+/GTK2 apps are nicely colored to my needs. Even most websites work fine with their default look, but some tend to have several attributes defined and others undefined. Most doesn't care, because it looks okay on common MS Windows systems under default color scheme, but - for the sake of clean design - it should be taken care of.

The problem is in default system font vs. white background in "post new reply" and other textareas. In which case I get my default system font (white) on white/semi-white background. One way is to simply set font to be black (explicitly) or do it like gmail - leave textareas unstyled, in which case I get black background and white text. Either way works for me.

Thanks,

freghar

[TheLuda]

Well, can I have a screenshot please? I am a Linux user myself (openSUSE with dark Gilouche theme), and yet have not seen that issue.

This site only has Linux administrators

[freghar]

(openSUSE with dark Gilouche theme)

I googled a bit and found http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1940/eclipsedarkgilouchethem.png which seems to have white font on panels, but still a black font on light gray as "text" GTK2 class. Which means you probably have your "text" and "base" colors set to dark on light.

My heavily customized theme looks like http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8202/screenshot2010073110151.png (a bit large indeed, but this is a smaller 15.4" laptop with rather high resolution).

Well I didn't wanted to waste your time with screenshots, but since you can't reproduce the issue, I'll do so.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1997/screenshot2010073110211.png -- Gmail - as mentioned - uses colorless input fields, making my firefox select system colors

quick reply:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4351/screenshot2010073110220.png

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/8486/screenshot2010073110222.png

search (applies also to advanced search page):

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2550/screenshot2010073110230.png

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2794/screenshot2010073110231.png

classic "advanced" post view:

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2082/screenshot2010073110235.png

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/766/screenshot2010073110241.png

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4021/screenshot2010073110242.png

the same thing applies to selection and combo boxes, like language selection on the bottom - or even advanced search selection fields

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4048/screenshot2010073110473.png

I guess that's enough screenshots - some elements like checkboxes are fine as they probably have no color / style specifications.

[TheLuda]

Now that helps more with finding the actual issue. I'll add a fix.