Bug 156302

Summary:	Default blue article's title color is unreadable against blue backgrounds and cannot be changed
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Marcin Trybus <mtrybus>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	osterfeld
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Marcin Trybus 2008-01-21 12:10:56 UTC

Version:           1.2.8 (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

I am using the standard KDE3.5 Dark Blue theme, which used a dark blue background for all windows. In akregator the default article title is blue, which means the titles are barely readable. The unread article numbers are likewise blue, which doesn't help either. I can't see the point why akregator doesn't either use desktop theme setting or allow to set it manually, even though another kontact application, kmail, has an option of changing the interface colors. 

I file this as a bug, rather then a feature request, because it makes the application unusable, unless I change a setting affecting the whole desktop (color theme) that I don't wish to change.

Comment 1 Marcin Trybus 2008-01-21 13:51:00 UTC

Whoah! That was fast. It seems akregator does use the system text after all. I'm 100% it didn't in the morning. All I did was to enter the program's settings and clicked OK without even changing anything. It was the first time I did this on Debian/unstable (previously using stable and various releases of Kubuntu). This was most certainly some old config than. 

Whoever wishes to investigate it is welcome to do so. Otherwise, it's resolved.

Comment 2 Marcin Trybus 2008-01-23 12:02:12 UTC

Sorry for my utter stupidity. Turns out I should be getting more sleep. 

Of course it's not OK. For the read articles akregator uses standard text color (white), but the *unread* titles are blue, thus unreadable. New articles are red (which is OK).

Comment 3 Marcin Trybus 2008-02-07 22:35:26 UTC

I might have found a solution for this issue, a patch enabling the text color change in Debian BTS here: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404905

I'm no programmer, but maybe it could be of use.

Comment 4 Frank Osterfeld 2008-10-29 00:53:38 UTC

This is configurable since 4.1