Bug 143698

Summary:	Bands of Color Obscure Underlying Text Display
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Stan Senuta Jr. <ssenuta>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	mcguire
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	First screenshot from Stan Second screenshot from Stan

Description Stan Senuta Jr. 2007-04-01 15:27:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc-4.0.1 
OS:                Linux

The "select" button of kmail's Message Composer displays my email addresses with solid dark blue bands obscuring every other address.

I succeeded in eliminating these color bands in my address book
by using the address book's View menu * Modify View * Look&Feel and changing options Alternating Backgrounds to ---> None. However, this had no affect on my composer select button's dialog box

I also checked the kmailrc configuration file but the only thing I found there that could possibly have some effect was the section labeled [RecipientPicker]. This section only has these two entries:

CurrentCollection=1
Size=413,282

Please note that KDE-3.5.6 is installed in in the home directory of a user seperate from my system-wide KDE-3.4.2 installation

Here is a snip of the user's ~/.bash_profile:

  KDEDIR=/home/kdedev/kde-3.5.6
  PATH=/home/kdedev/kde-3.5.6/bin:$PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/kdedev/kde-3.5.6/lib

  export KDEDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2007-04-01 16:42:22 UTC

Please check the Alternative Background Color configured under Appearance/Colors in KMail's configuration dialog.

Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-01 16:54:39 UTC

>Please check the Alternative Background Color configured under Appearance/Colors in KMail's configuration dialog. 
That does not have any effect on the recipients picker.

>The "select" button of kmail's Message Composer displays my email addresses with solid dark blue bands obscuring every other address. 
What do you mean by "obscuring"? This alternate background color thing is used in all KDE applications which use KListView, this can hardly be KMail's fault.
Please attach a screenshot.

Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2007-04-01 20:23:39 UTC

Stan Senuta Jr. wrote:
> Please check the Alternative Background Color configured under
> Appearance/Colors in KMail's configuration dialog.

MY kmail * settings * configure kmail * colors [tab]  --does not have the 
custom colors option checked.

However, if I do check the custom colors box, then Alternate Background Color 
is White. Also, if I change it to another color it has no effect on the 
select (recepient) dialog box

Thank you for your speedy reply.

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-01 22:52:02 UTC

The reporter sent me the following by private mail (Stan, please don't use email, but use the bugs.kde.org interface directly in the future!):

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By obscuring, I mean the underlying text data is there but only visible if I select the color band with my mouse.

I have attached two snapshot files to show what's happening.  The snapshot3.png shows that the text is visible if highlighted with my mouse.

By-the-way, I do have the same color band problem in the Ark & Digikam programs but they only show up when launched in the kde-3.5.6 environment.  If I start the same programs from my kde-3.4.2 environment there is no color band problem. Sorry if I gave you the impression that Kmail was the sole cupprit. but the bug report wanted to hear about kde-3.5.6 pkg applications not about general kde applications.

Thank you for your quick reply & I hope I gave you more relevent information this time.  I'm sort of new at this bug reporting thing.
===

Changing product to kdelibs then.
Stan, maybe your colors are incorrectly configured in the control center?
Please check (in the control center) Appearance & Themes->Colors and try if changing you color scheme helps.

Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-01 22:53:32 UTC

Created attachment 20146 [details]
First screenshot from Stan

Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-01 22:54:10 UTC

Created attachment 20147 [details]
Second screenshot from Stan

Comment 7 Stan Senuta Jr. 2007-04-02 04:49:56 UTC

My Kde Bug# 143698--Not Really A Bug

I appoligize for reporting this as a bug.  I discovered the kmail color bands were due to a setting in the Kde Control Center called "Widget Colors" *
"Alternating Background List"

I spent days trying to figure this out & I am amazed that your initial feedback was right on target. I'm even more amazed at how fast I got a response to my initial report.

Please keep up the good work & thank you  ---Stan Senuta

Comment 8 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-02 16:35:44 UTC

Not a bug, closing then.