Bug 292902

Summary:	After choosing a dark theme the album view still with a white background and unreadable yellow or white font.
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Stef <photographer505-bug>
Component:	Usability-Themes	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bruno.sapede, caulier.gilles, kevanf1, michael.mrowietz, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.2.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Stef 2012-01-30 20:17:02 UTC

Version: 2.1.1 (using KDE 4.7.4)
OS: Linux

I'm working on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit. I use the German Version of digiKam. As suggested in Bug 284740 ("Can't change theme") I installed the KDE system settings control center via synaptic and I was finally able to change the default theme, respectively the theme in general.

However, the changes obviously only affect the main window of digiKam. The album explorer on the left of the main window has still a white background and - depending on which of the dark themes I use - either with an unreadable yellow or light grey font. I can't change anything in the album explorer via the contrel center. The bug remains even after a digiKam- and also a system restart.

I would be more than grateful if someone had a solution for this bug since apart from this digiKam is a great application. To make it easier I attach a list of packages I've already installed to get the dark digiKam theme running correctly:

systemsettings (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)

kde-wallpapers (4:4.7.1-0ubuntu2)
kde-workspace-data-extras (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
ksysguardd (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libkephal4abi1 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libkholidays4 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libksgrd4 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libkworkspace4 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libplasma-geolocation-interface4 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libsolidcontrol4abi2 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libsyndication4 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libtaskmanager4abi2 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
libweather-ion6 (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)

plasma-dataengines-workspace (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
kde-wallpapers-default (4:4.7.1-0ubuntu2)
kde-workspace-data (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1)
oxygen-cursor-theme (0.0.2010-05-10-kde4.4.3-1ubuntu1)

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Stef

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Started digiKam - selected "Einstellungen (Settings) - Design - Einstellungen to launch the settings control center for the themes. Selected a theme and changed the colors. Pressed "Apply" and "OK". Restarted digiKam with the same result. The album explorer remains white. Tried it with other themes with no success. Downloaded via the control center a dark theme called TeaSun, applied it, restarted digiKam with no success. Restarted the PC - started digiKam again, no success. Still a white album explorer.

Actual Results:
Everytime I start digiKam the album explorer has a white background whilst the main window "accepts" the theme currently selected (in my case a dark theme). Because of the white background of the album explorer the album names are almost unreadable and the entire layout of the GUI looks quite weird now. Especially when I click on e.g. batch processing in the menu. The following mask is a mixture of parts of the dark them and whited-out parts with unreadable font where I can choose the files.

Expected Results:
The entire GUI including the album explorer should use the selected theme.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-15-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2012-01-31 09:21:20 UTC

Update to last 2.5.0 and try again. This have been fixed with a version > 2.3.0

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Stef 2012-01-31 19:12:03 UTC

Hi,

Many thanks for your quick reply and for your help! The problem still exists.

I uninstalled the previous version of digiKam completely, removed respective folders and downloaded + unpacked the digikam-2.5.0.tar.bz2. I followed the compilation steps as stated on digikam.org however the installation terminated with an error due to "missing CMakeLists.txt file in the build folder" which I created to proceed with the CMake Command in the build folder:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=relwithdebinfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..

Tried it several times with the same result.

Then I found Philipp Johnsons repo on launchpad, installed 2.5.0 directly, started it and experienced the same issue. Since libkipi is still version 4.7.4 I wonder if this should be 4.8 instead for the 2.5.0 version? 

Thanks again for your help!

Regards,
Stef

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2012-02-01 03:46:51 UTC

yeah, this sounds essentially like a dup of bug #283572

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2012-02-01 07:34:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283572 ***

Comment 5 Stef 2012-02-01 09:57:43 UTC

Thanks, guys, for your comments.

Yesterday I wasn't even able to modify the theme in the systemsettings dialog (again) but today this seems to have changed for some reason. So now I found a compromise between the best readable font color in the dark grey main window and also the white album explorer. 

BTW: the tooltips are absolutely fine in my version!

However, I wouldn't mark it as solved, although this is working for me now it's still not optimal.

Maybe a noob question but would KDE 4.8 do the trick for the 2.5.0 version?

Thanks for your support and regards,

Stef

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2013-10-30 10:26:49 UTC

*** Bug 326870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2015-12-23 08:47:00 UTC

*** Bug 357078 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2016-03-24 08:21:13 UTC

*** Bug 360922 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 caulier.gilles 2020-09-17 02:57:23 UTC

Fixed with #283572