inappropriate color theme in the contact list

[Ghislain Vaillant]

A slight usability issue, certainly because of the default empathy color theme. On the contact list, when using the drop-dowm menu to set your status ("Available", "Busy"...), the text color is dark grey on a black background. Unless you are lucky to use a monitor with strong backlight, this is obviously not the wisest choice for readability. Hoovering the menu entries with the mouse does reveal the text better (orange background with white text) but this is not intuitive at first.

Proposed solution :
Instead, the color layout in the drop-down menu of the contact list should be set to white font on dark background as it is for the Me Menu under the mail icon. One might argue that people are more likely to use the Me Menu instead of the contact list. Still, this fix will bring a little more consistancy between all the available options for the user.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 16 10:06:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better and sorry for the long time without response. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice that if it is still present in current versions someone could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for empathy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]