Bug 425057

Summary:	When the KDE global theme is Dark Breeze, Kate shows black text on a black background
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Zlatko Michailov <zmichailov>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, kuszek.dx
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.75
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Zlatko Michailov 2020-08-05 23:36:56 UTC

SUMMARY
openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Global theme: Dark Breeze
2. In Kate, select Settings > Color Theme either Default or Breeze Dark.
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Only the windows frame changes. The text are remains black text on a black background, which is not readable.

Even when a Light theme is chosen, the text area doesn't change at all.

EXPECTED RESULT
The text color to be light.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2020-09-15 16:49:58 UTC

This is fixed by the theming rewrite for Frameworks 5.75.

Details see

https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-09-13-kate-color-themes-5.75/

The colors should now be adapt a bit better, in no case such bad things shall happen. (as no bundled theme has such bad colors set)