Bug 515536 - selection foreground color always uses system foreground color
Summary: selection foreground color always uses system foreground color
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.12.1
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
URL:
Keywords: accessibility
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-02-05 05:55 UTC by PK
Modified: 2026-02-11 10:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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selection foreground color always uses system foreground color (200.16 KB, image/jpeg)
2026-02-05 05:55 UTC, PK
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Description PK 2026-02-05 05:55:37 UTC
Created attachment 189228 [details]
selection foreground color always uses system foreground color

SUMMARY

Within selected areas Dolphin seems to always use the system foreground color. So that you can't change the font color in a selected area except by changing the whole system font color

My attachment is showing this very clearly (imho even Thunderbird is acting correctly)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. start dolphin

OBSERVED RESULT
the foreground/font color in selections is the same as the system font color

EXPECTED RESULT
the foreground/font color in selections should be the same as the color of the foreground in selections


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 520
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Latitude 5480
Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2026-02-11 10:07:34 UTC
Can confirm. For some reason, it only shows the correct color when its being clicked on, but not when focused. The background color 
dims because of the focus going away, which might be the root cause.

dolphin 26.03.70
Operating System: KDE Linux 2026-02-11
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.18.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600