Bug 313172 - New Air theme has readability issues with dark wallpapers
Summary: New Air theme has readability issues with dark wallpapers
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Oxygen
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.10
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hugo Pereira Da Costa
URL:
Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-01-13 11:51 UTC by Janek Bevendorff
Modified: 2021-03-09 23:58 UTC (History)
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The text is very hard to read (9.60 KB, image/png)
2013-01-13 11:51 UTC, Janek Bevendorff
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Description Janek Bevendorff 2013-01-13 11:51:39 UTC
Created attachment 76434 [details]
The text is very hard to read

The new Air theme in 4.10 has lighter transparency than the Air theme in 4.9 and earlier. Although this is not a bad idea per se it produces some issues with dark wallpapers because black text on a dark background is hardly legible.

Some widgets such as the Clock widget use white text with a drop shadow around anyway, but some don't. E.g. the text on the task manager widget is barely readable (see attached screen shot), especially when the window is minimized.

I file this bug report against Oxygen because I think this needs a general solution and not a solution on a "per-widget" basis. Some widgets such as the Folder View widget use a white gradient behind text, which is one solution to the problem, but probably not the prettiest. Whatever solution you choose, the behavior should be the same throughout all widgets.
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:58:33 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.