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Some text in intrepid's new default theme is unreadable

Ubuntu â€œhuman-themeâ€ package Bugs Bug #243957

Reported by Michael Monreal on 2008-06-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone

​human-theme (Ubuntu) 
Fix Released 
High
Unassigned 

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Bug Description

Some text in the new theme is not very well readable, namely:

* text inside of progress bars

* text on nautilus special widgets

See the screenshots

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Michael Monreal (mimox) wrote on 2008-06-29: #1

Screenshot.png (10.7 KiB, image/png)

Michael Monreal (mimox) wrote on 2008-06-29: #2

Screenshot-1(1).png (6.6 KiB, image/png)

Connor Imes (rocket2dmn) wrote on 2008-06-29: #3

Thank you for taking the time to report this. I agree that the NewHuman theme is very dark which results in a lot of different text being difficult or nearly impossible to read. Setting to High importance (since we are still in early development, could be critical otherwise since it automatically sets this theme).
The problem also appears to exist on text that is disabled/grayed-out like can even appear in the update manager.

Changed in human-theme:

importance: Undecided → High

status: New → Triaged

Pavol KlaÄanskÃ½ (pavolzetor) wrote on 2008-06-30: #4

option buttons in webpages (150.8 KiB, image/png)

Pavol KlaÄanskÃ½ (pavolzetor) wrote on 2008-06-30: #5

animated circle in firefox on tabs and bottom of X (exit) button

Michael Monreal (mimox) wrote on 2008-06-30: #9

I noticed the problem in firefox, too. Also note the brown area to the side of web entries, this will look bad in both gecko 1.9 and webkit apps.

Even with those bugs fixed the new theme is unusable for me on my laptop. It looks about usable on the desktop, but the laptop screen has less contrast and my eyes start hurting after looking at the white-font-on-dark-brown for a while. Bright themes like the SuSE default theme work much better on this screen. I would think twice before making something like this default for the release...

Nico Bauer (oshelpdesk) wrote on 2008-06-30: #10

i have the problem in amule and vlc. in vlc i cannot read the text in the configurations, in amule i don't see the servers. you only see the selected entry.

Pavol KlaÄanskÃ½ (pavolzetor) wrote on 2008-07-02: #11

change rhythmbox icon whe it is played, change chechbox to human old style in white color (rhythmbox menu in rightclick to notification icon)

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) wrote on 2008-07-02: #12

I've created a wiki page in which to discuss any problem the NewHuman (dark) theme has with any apps. As we are only testing the new theme it's probably better to discuss these issues there than in a bug report which will be ignored once we change back to a lighter theme. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/NewHumanTesting

Luka Napotnik (luka-napotnik) wrote on 2008-08-18: #13

I can confirm similar problems with gnome-control-center. The text is unreadable because background is white and text is light gray.

Darren Adams (darrengetsone) wrote on 2008-10-01: #14

nautilus-renaming.png (27.7 KiB, image/png)

This also appears when you attempt to rename a file or folder in Nautilus. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate. The folder is labelled 'Scripting' but you can hardly see it

Francisco Javier Saavedra Plominsky (kuroyume) wrote on 2008-10-03: #15

Intrepid Beta seems to fix several of the issues listed on the wiki page.

David Murphy (schwuk) wrote on 2008-10-10: #16

Added a couple more cases for Claws and Firefox/Wordpress to the wiki page.

Pete Deremer (sportman1280) wrote on 2008-10-14: #17

Gmail Notify's pop up message (288.8 KiB, image/png)

I have the nautilus renaming issue also.

also attaching the following screenshot of gmail notifys pop up.

Connor Imes (rocket2dmn) wrote on 2009-01-28: #18

This was fixed before Intrepid was released as stable, and is not a problem in Jaunty.

Changed in human-theme:

status: Triaged → Fix Released