Version: KWord 1.5beta2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux It'd be nice if one can choose the default background and text colour for documents. My KDE colour scheme has a black background with white text, so i cant see normal documents with black text. It has been better explained here http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28016#c2. Since it was under another bug which was closed, I posted a new one.
Version KWord 1.5beta2, for some version it didnt show up.
Please consider this confirmed for 1.5.2 with fedora packages, too. This should also be a bug, not a wishlist. Word processing documents should resemble the printed paper they will someday produce, not the OS colors. And even *if* it looked good to use the OS colors, taking only the background color and not the foreground color creates an unreadable document for those of us who use light-on-dark themes. Changing the text color to something we can see (white) would then produce a document that is unreadable when printed.
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:02, Chris Petersen wrote: > Changing the text color to something we can see (white) would then produce a document that is unreadable when printed. No, since the intent was that a special color (called "invalid") is black on paper, and text-color-from-color-scheme on screen. Seems that this doesn't always work, though, if people only get one and not the other; does it happen with the builtin templates too like A4 or Letter?
ok, I see what you mean. Yes, if I just create a new blank document, I get the proper white text on a black background. I've only ever used kword to open word docs sent from other people, so that might explain why I've only ever seen black text. However, inability to choose the document's visual background color is still a huge pain. I expect that my word processing documents look like the printed document will.
This "bug" is still present in KOffice 1.6. KWord and KSpread, however, exhibit different behaviors. Initially, KWord will correctly use KDE's color scheme (standard text over standard background). However, if the document is saved in OpenDocument Text format (.odt) and reopened later, it uses a black text color over the standard background color. This doesn't happen if the file is saved as a KWord document (.kwd). KSpread uses a black text over white background by default, regardless of the color scheme. But typing into a cell changes that cell's color to black text color over standard background color.
Isn't this a duplicate of Bug 26566 (reported in 2001 - I wonder why nobody voted)? KWord is WYSIWYG, isn't it? So the default sheet color in kword should be white regardless of the KDE background color (because the standard sheet of paper is white too) - or at least it should be possible for the user to make it white (or any other color) regardless of the KDE color scheme.
kword currently (i.e. in trunk) uses the system scheme foreground color for text that does not specify a color, but always uses a white background. In addition to the white background being an a11y violation, this breaks the cardinal usability rule 'never specify exactly one of fg, bg color'. Either the default fg color must be black, or the background color must also use the system color scheme (the latter is preferable). Or better yet, fix bug 26566 :-). Since the comments in general seem to be about the bug rather than the RFE, I'm retitling to reflect that.
*** Bug 44080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 116082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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