Unreadable screen in Ubiquity

[Erich Eickmeyer]

When the "install alongside" selection is made, it is impossible to read the white text on white background, likely due to the color scheme used in Ubuntu Studio. This could be corrected by forcing a different color scheme for Ubiquity in Ubuntu Studio or by forcing Ubiquity to use black text in this screen.

See screenshot.

UPDATE:

Since this is *always* a text on white background situation, no matter the GTK theme being used, the sane solution is to use the Ubiquity code to force black text on the white background for readability reasons.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2036846

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Looks like this can be fixed by simply adding `frame.modify_fg(Gtk.StateFlags.NORMAL, Gdk.color_parse("black"))` to the partition resize box. There will be MRs.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Confirmed, fixed with GTK code.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

ubuntustudio-live-settings needs to change the .desktop file to ensure the Materia-dark theme is used, but it's probably a separate bug, so this is invalid.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

This does affect Ubuntu Cinnamon as well (see screenshot), however, it is fixed with my proposal in Ubiquity. Point here is that Ubuntu Studio isn't the only one affected.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Here's Ubuntu Cinnamon after the fix.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

I also took the liberty of testing other flavors with the fix in place. Here is Xubuntu.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Here is Ubuntu MATE with the fix in place.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

And for good measure, here's Edubuntu. GNOME even switches to dark mode without losing the text with this mechanism.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Erich - I'll try asap to see what happens with our (UB) legacy iso.

N.B. Our default theme has ubiquity specific theming to overcome ubiquity issues like this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 23.10.5

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ubiquity (23.10.5) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Force partition auto-resize boxes to have black text (LP: #2036846)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:09:46 +0200