Bug 61852

Summary:	font color is ignored (always white with black outline) (SuSE only bug)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdesktop	Reporter:	Ingo Klöcker <kloecker>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, pharouff
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.1.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ingo Klöcker 2003-07-30 14:08:25 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Well, obviously SuSE did the following:
- add backported patch from 3.2 for shadow text on icons.
  kcontrol changes are not included for i18n compliance

The problem is that the text color isn't configurable anymore and that the setting "color for normal text" is ignored. The SuSE guys should have removed this setting. I'm just filing this bug report because I expect more SuSE users to be annoyed by the fact that white text color (which is very distracting) is forced on them.

Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2003-07-30 14:11:19 UTC

As I said this is a SuSE specific bug and therefore I close it as invalid. I 
just hope that the text color will be configurable in KDE 3.2.

Comment 2 Ingo Klöcker 2003-07-30 14:38:38 UTC

People who (like me) don't like the white on black can change this by adding 
the following three lines to the [FMSettings] section in the 
~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc: 
 
ShadowCurrentScheme=-1,0,0,4.000000,0.000000,3,0,0 
ShadowTextBackground=255,255,255 
ShadowTextColor=0,0,0 
 
This setting turns the shadow off and sets the text color to black and the 
highlight color to white.

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2003-08-02 11:16:11 UTC

*** Bug 62003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 David Faure 2003-08-13 12:29:16 UTC

Subject: Re:  New: font color is ignored (always white with black outline) (SuSE only bug)

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:08, you wrote:
> Well, obviously SuSE did the following:

Why did you report it here then?

Comment 5 Ingo Klöcker 2003-08-14 01:29:53 UTC

Subject: Re:  font color is ignored (always white with black outline) (SuSE only bug)

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 12:29, David Faure wrote:
> Why did you report it here then?

So that other SuSE users who hit the same problem (and I'm not the only 
one as you can see) know
a) that this is a SuSE only "bug"
b) how to workaround this "feature".

Comment 6 Ron Onstenk 2004-03-17 12:14:18 UTC

Thanks Ingo.
How should normal users know anyhow it is a KDE or SuSE feature.
They fsck up more things. 
Changing the Kmenu to propiarity SuSEmenu

ShadowEnabled=false works also

Comment 7 Ingo Klöcker 2004-03-18 00:08:29 UTC

In KDE 3.2 the shadow can of course be disabled via KControl. But it's very well hidden in Desktop->Background->Advanced Options...->Background Icon Text.

Comment 8 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:22:34 UTC

Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.