Bug 204641

Summary:	Menus are unreadable if desktop effects are not enabled
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Anne Wilson <cannewilson>
Component:	widget-lancelot	Assignee:	Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Lancelot menu without desktop effects

Description Anne Wilson 2009-08-21 11:51:00 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

With video cards where desktop effects are not practicable, Lancelot displays the logout menu, for instance, as black text on black background, so that you are reliant on the icon for navigation.

Comment 1 Ivan Čukić 2009-08-21 12:48:35 UTC

Which theme are you using? And, could you post a screenshot please?

Comment 2 Anne Wilson 2009-08-21 13:25:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which theme are you using? And, could you post a screenshot please?

Oxyglass.  With desktop effects enabled the result is pleasing - the black border disappears, as well.  However, on this hardware screen repaints are painfully slow in that case.  Attachment follows

Comment 3 Anne Wilson 2009-08-21 13:27:19 UTC

Created attachment 36326 [details]
Lancelot menu without desktop effects

Comment 4 Ivan Čukić 2009-08-21 13:34:59 UTC

Could you please check whether this also happens with other* themes? If not, then
you should report this bug to the Oxyglass author.

* other as in themes that ship with KDE (oxygen, air, slim-glow, heron, elegance)

Comment 5 Anne Wilson 2009-08-21 15:07:01 UTC

You could well have the right answer, though I'm unable to state that categorically.  There is no problem with oxygen, air or elegance.  Slim-glow was installed, but refused to display - whenever I set it to that, nothing changed, and going back to desktop settings showed that the previous theme was still active.  I uninstalled it from the More Themes window, then re-installed it.  I also installed heron.  Neither of them show up in the list of available themes.  Neither logging out and back in nor rebooting has refreshed the list.  If you can tell me how to do that I'll check the other two.

Comment 6 Ivan Čukić 2009-08-21 15:54:01 UTC

If Air and Oxygen work, the other /default/ themes should also (all Lancelot themes share most of the files with Oxygen - since they are mainly black) so this is definityle Oxyglass issue.

Unfortunately I have no idea why your theme dialogue doesn't work as expected. You should probably report a separate bug for that (if there isn't already a bug that deals with that).