GTK Theme: links appear white on white in Evolution Email view

[mbert]

I have tried several color schemes, but the effect is always the same. Running Evolution with some of the other existing GTK themes does not exhibit this problem, hence it seems to be related to the GTK theme applied when running NsCDE.

[NsCDE]

Hello @mbert

Just a reminder for me, tomorrow I will find at work a CSS hack which makes Evolution link display back visible. I will post it here. This is due to Evolution interfering with GTK themes and half-forcing some things, but not another.

[mbert]

Thank you! I have, by the way, also seen this problem in dolphin file manager - in file list views the file names are invisible. Another one to check!

[mbert]

Another one: in Eclipse (where I use the GTK theme) selected entries in the Project explorer appear white on white.

[NsCDE]

Sorry, I was busy. Here is the CSS code which apparently affects Evolution. Put it in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and try to play with it. Make sure to complitely restart Evolution between probes.

For Eclipse I don't know. I will have to try it in some VM and see for myself.

MessageList.* {
        -MessageList-new-mail-bg-color: #fff7e9;
        -MessageList-new-mail-fg-color: #000000;
}

webkitwebview {
   color: #000fff;
   background-color: #fff000;
}

/*
selection {
  background-color: @sel_text;
  color: @fg_text;
}
*/

/*
EPreviewPane .entry {
    background-color: @bg_text;
    color: @fg_text;
}
*/

[mbert]

Your CSS code solves the problem for Evolution, a big thanks, this will help before the next NsCDE update will eventually ship it.

The problem in Eclipse still exists. I have seen it in the Package Explorer, Open-Type/Resource dialogue and the Outline so far. With GTK debugging I have been unable to identify the CSS rule causing this, also CSS Spy did not work at all on my machine.

[mbert]

Not sure whether this was the case last week, but now the selected entry in the message list appears black font on very dark background.

[mbert]

Some more I found:

Evolution, calendar widget completely black, also not sure whether the black bar at the top of the selected calendar day is correct:

The currently selected email in the "Messages" list has a near-black background making the black font very difficult to read:

[ghost]

Thank you! I have, by the way, also seen this problem in dolphin file manager - in file list views the file names are invisible. Another one to check!

what is file list view? Do you mean "Details view mode"? Regardless I'm not seeing any invisible text anywhere.

[mbert]

With the update to 2.3 a few things have got better. However the problem with white-on-white links is still there, and in order to fix it I need to add the following code (that you proposed earlier) to my local gtk configuration:

webkitwebview {
   color: #000fff;
   background-color: #fff000;
}

[mbert]

[regarding the Dolphin file manager]

what is file list view? Do you mean "Details view mode"?
That's what you get when pressing the rightmost view option in the toolbar on top, see the screenshot below.

Regardless I'm not seeing any invisible text anywhere.

The font color seems to be always white in the folder view, so that whenever there's a white background the font is invisible, like here:

This is where we are with update to 2.3 installed.

Sorry for not having come back for so long, your reply must have been swallowed by my spam filter. I have been using NsCDE all the time and got used to working around the above problems.

[ghost]

[regarding the Dolphin file manager]

what is file list view? Do you mean "Details view mode"?
That's what you get when pressing the rightmost view option in the toolbar on top, see the screenshot below.

Regardless I'm not seeing any invisible text anywhere.

The font color seems to be always white in the folder view, so that whenever there's a white background the font is invisible, like here:

This is where we are with update to 2.3 installed.

Sorry for not having come back for so long, your reply must have been swallowed by my spam filter. I have been using NsCDE all the time and got used to working around the above problems.

See issue #148, try 2.1.

Also you may need to edit the plasma theme colors.

[ghost]

[regarding the Dolphin file manager]

what is file list view? Do you mean "Details view mode"?
That's what you get when pressing the rightmost view option in the toolbar on top, see the screenshot below.

Regardless I'm not seeing any invisible text anywhere.

The font color seems to be always white in the folder view, so that whenever there's a white background the font is invisible, like here:

This is where we are with update to 2.3 installed.

Sorry for not having come back for so long, your reply must have been swallowed by my spam filter. I have been using NsCDE all the time and got used to working around the above problems.

See issue #148, try 2.1.

Also you may need to edit the plasma theme colors.

[ghost]

[regarding the Dolphin file manager]

what is file list view? Do you mean "Details view mode"?
That's what you get when pressing the rightmost view option in the toolbar on top, see the screenshot below.

Regardless I'm not seeing any invisible text anywhere.

The font color seems to be always white in the folder view, so that whenever there's a white background the font is invisible, like here:

This is where we are with update to 2.3 installed.

Sorry for not having come back for so long, your reply must have been swallowed by my spam filter. I have been using NsCDE all the time and got used to working around the above problems.

It seems to me like you're using the gtk theme. Try using the Kvantum theme (you may need to install kvantum).